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 ...

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.

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 ...

It is a rare example from pre-Reformation Scotland in the early 16th century from Scottish religious institutions. The score is also the only piece from this period in northeastern Scotland to ...

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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 ...

Kilts originated in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, according to the famous kilt purveyor, Lochcarron of Scotland. The tartan, skirt-like garment is still popular to this day ...

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 ...