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The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, ... images of the saints, and the authority of the pope. [25] Rough Wooing
John Knox (c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation.He was the founder of the Church of Scotland.
John Spottiswood, (various spellings), was a Scots reformer and Church of Scotland superintendent for Lothian. He was born in 1510, the second son of William Spottiswood of Spottiswood (killed at Flodden in 1513), by Elizabeth Pringle, daughter of Henry Hop-Pringle of Torsonce, The family trace back to Robert Spottiswood who possessed the barony of Spottiswood, Berwickshire, in the reign of ...
Pages in category "Scottish reformers" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. William Alison; C.
Self portrait of George Jamesone, 1642 Rare example of pre-Reformation stained glass in the Magdalen Chapel, Edinburgh. Art in early modern Scotland includes all forms of artistic production within the modern borders of Scotland, between the adoption of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century to the beginnings of the Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century.
The 16th century Scottish Reformation resulted in the creation of a reformed Church of Scotland, informally known as the Kirk, which was Presbyterian in structure, and Calvinist in doctrine. In December 1557, it became the state church of Scotland, and in 1560, the Parliament of Scotland adopted the Scots Confession which rejected many Catholic ...
George Wishart (also Wisehart; c. 1513 – 1 March 1546) was a Scottish Protestant Reformer and one of the early Protestant martyrs burned at the stake as a heretic. George Wishart was the son of James and brother of Sir John of Pitarrow, both ranking themselves on the side of the Reformers.
Pages in category "Scottish Reformation" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...