1. Religious Orders And Communities.
... 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 ... the part of the parochial clergy, whose rights often seemed to be invaded by the friars. The Dominicans played the leading part in the evangelization of South America; the first Americ...
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