26 Facts About Scottish Reformation

Scottish Reformation was the process by which Scotland broke with the Papacy and developed a predominantly Calvinist national Kirk, which was strongly Presbyterian in its outlook.

The Scottish Reformation revolutionised church architecture, with new churches built and existing churches adapted for reformed services, particularly by placing the pulpit centrally in the church, as preaching was at the centre of worship.

The Scottish Reformation had a severe impact on church music, with song schools closed down, choirs disbanded, music books and manuscripts destroyed, and organs removed from churches.

Scottish Reformation Protestantism was focused on the Bible, and starting in the later seventeenth century there would be efforts to stamp out popular activities viewed as superstitious or frivolous.

The whole, with individual Scottish Reformation bishoprics, became the "special daughter of the see of Rome".

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Scottish Reformation'storians have discerned a decline of monastic life in this period, with many religious houses maintaining smaller numbers of monks.

Humanist scholars trained on the Continent were recruited to the new Scottish Reformation universities founded at St Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

In 1527, the English ambassador at Antwerp noted that Scottish Reformation merchants were taking William Tyndale's New Testament to Edinburgh and St Andrews.

Scottish Reformation repudiated the reforming policies, and all consideration of an English marriage for the Queen, angering the English.

Scottish Reformation's put Frenchmen in charge of the treasury and the Great Seal, and the French ambassador Henri Cleutin sometimes attended the Privy Council.

Scottish Reformation administered a Protestant communion and carried out a preaching tour of the privy kirks.

Scottish Reformation urged the members to reject Nicodemism, by which they held Protestant convictions, but attended Catholic services.

Scottish Reformation's gained an agreement that she would be the only person to partake legally in Catholic services and did not attempt to re-impose Catholicism on her subjects, thus angering the chief Catholic nobles.

Scottish Reformation used his powers to call the General Assembly where he wished, limiting the ability of more radical clergy to attend.

Scottish Reformation paid for moderate clergy to be present, negotiated with members, and manipulated its business in order to limit the independence of the Kirk.

Scottish Reformation took over the existing structures and assets of the Church, any attempted recovery by the Catholic hierarchy was extremely difficult.

Scottish Reformation introduced new specialist teaching staff, replacing the system of "regenting", where one tutor took the students through the entire arts curriculum.

Scottish Reformation assisted in the reconstruction of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in order to do for St Andrews what he had done for Glasgow, he was appointed Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1580.

Scottish Reformation produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace for the king and queen thought to be a version of his play The Thrie Estaitis in 1540, which satirised the corruption of church and state, and which is the only complete play to survive from before the Reformation.

The only significant surviving pre-Scottish Reformation stained glass in Scotland is a window of four roundels in the Magdalen Chapel of Cowgate, Edinburgh, completed in 1544.

The loss of ecclesiastical patronage that resulted from the Scottish Reformation, meant that native craftsmen and artists turned to secular patrons.

One result of this was the flourishing of Scottish Reformation Renaissance painted ceilings and walls, with large numbers of private houses of burgesses, lairds and lords gaining often highly detailed and coloured patterns and scenes, of which over a hundred examples survive.

The Lutheranism that influenced the early Scottish Reformation attempted to accommodate Catholic musical traditions into worship, drawing on Latin hymns and vernacular songs.

Later the Calvinism that came to dominate the Scottish Reformation was much more hostile to Catholic musical tradition and popular music, placing an emphasis on what was biblical, which meant the Psalms.

Scottish Reformation Protestantism was focused on the Bible, which was seen as infallible and the major source of moral authority.

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Scottish Reformation became interested in witchcraft and published a defence of witch-hunting in the Daemonologie in 1597, but he appears to have become increasingly sceptical and eventually took steps to limit prosecutions.