Elizabeth Melville
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Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross was a Scottish poet. In 1603 she became the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work in print, when the Edinburgh publisher Robert Charteris issued the fir
Culross Abbey Kirk, where Elizabeth Melville worshipped.
Culross situated on the north coast of the Firth of Forth; the village from which Melville took her courtesy title, Lady Culross.
St Mary's College, St Andrews, at which Melville's son, Alexander, taught.
Pastor Samuel Rutherford (c.1600 – 1661).
Scottish Reformation
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The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms part of the wider European 16th-century Prote
Statue of John Knox, a leading figure of the Scottish Reformation.
Henry Wardlaw (died 1440), Bishop of St Andrews, royal tutor and adviser, founder of The University of St Andrews and key figure in fighting Lollardy
A mid-16th-century oak panel carving from a house in Dundee
Portrait of Hector Boece (1465–1536), a major figure in European humanism, who returned to be the first principal of the University of Aberdeen