... V, and Benedict XIII "and more than 60 cardinals have belonged to the order. Apart from their specific work, the Dominicans have done much to aid and foster the development of art. Their cloisters have produced such distinguished painters as Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo. Their contributions to literature have been chiefly in theology and philosophy, and they have produced outstanding ... writers such as St Thomas Aquinas and St Albertus Magnus. The important medieval encyclopedia Speculum Majus was the work of a Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais. Other Dominicans were the German mystics...

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