The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

In the early 16th century, Scotland was a piously Catholic nation. Devotion flourished, and an increasingly educated populace sought more personal forms of spiritual experience. Rome and its ...

And as Scotland – Contains Strong Language reveals ... manuscript The earliest surviving record of the word is a 16th Century manuscript held in the National Library of Scotland.

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Welcome to 16th century Scotland. King James the VI is back from imprisonment, consolidating his grip over the highlands and laying the groundwork to ascend the throne in England. Welcome to 16th ...

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their ...

Old Craig in Morningside, which was burnt to the ground by Henry VIII’s forces and then linked to Mary Queen of Scots, has come on the market A 16th Century house once set on fire under orders ...

Researchers have now analyzed a 55-note snippet of sheet music from 16th century Scotland, recreating a sound associated with a culture for which no other music has survived. The notation was ...