Episode 47 - The Reformation Spreads across Northern Europe

Well, did you enjoy our brief excursion into hell last episode?  I did.  Since the world didn’t end, and we didn’t get to experience the afterlife first-hand, I guess we’re stuck here for a while.  So let’s keep looking at history, and see if there’s anything we can learn from it.  Before everything went to hell, we were talking about Martin Luther and the beginning of the Reformation.  Again, the Reformation was kind of exclusive to northern Europe.  Part of the reason for this is that the south of Europe had almost 1500 years of history of being dominated by Rome, and everything, society, politics, economy, religion, even language  - they were just more connected with Rome than the northern part of Europe was.  So people felt more freedom to complain about Rome, in the north, and more freedom to separate themselves from Rome’s influence.