... that had its birthplaces in the twelfth-century Paris schools, did not have any specific dislike to traditional style; surely, various Scholastic scholars of the Middle Ages, for example, Jean de Gerson (1363 "1429), showed enthusiasm toward the classics. However Scholastic scholars did object firmly to the application of the philological technique to the content of the Bible and to ... , however a number of its expressive traits were received as traditions of vernacular style and substance. This is noticeable in works of the gathering of sixteenth-century French artists known as La Plé...

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... , Alexander V. On his first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus was accompanied by a group of Franciscans. The first convents in America were established by Franciscans, at Santo Domingo and La Vega in what is now the Dominican Republic. The rapid conversion of the Native Americans and the consequent enthusiasm of the missionary-minded in Spain led to the further spread ... southern part of the New World as far as the Pacific Ocean, the French friars, who had arrived in Canada in 1615, at the behest of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, set up missions throughout the nort...

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