Lords of the Congregation
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The Lords of the Congregation, originally styling themselves the Faithful, were a group of Protestant Scottish nobles who in the mid-16th century favoured a reformation of the Catholic church according to Protestant principles and a Scottish-English alliance.
The Preaching of Knox before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June 1559 (David Wilkie, 1832)
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 Protestant Reformation.
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