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 ...

Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation ... III and the Wars of Independence. Both France and England pursued the opportunity to commandeer ...

After living in exile in France for a time, Becket returned to England and was assassinated by some of Henry's knights. The king later did public penance for this at Becket's tomb in Canterbury. Soon ...

Soon after, Becket was canonized a saint. Another influential saint was the 14th-century Italian mystic and writer Catherine of Siena. Because of the increasing power of the kings of France ...

After living in exile in France for a time, Becket returned to England and was assassinated by some of Henry’s knights. The king later did public penance for this at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury. Soon ...

After the death of James IV at the disastrous Battle of Flodden in 1513 Scotland once again had an infant Stewart king on the ...