... medieval encyclopedia Speculum Majus was the work of a Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais. Other Dominicans were the German mystics Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Heinrich Suso, as well as the Italian preacher and religious reformer Savonarola. In the later Middle Ages the order was equalled in influence only by the Franciscans, the two orders sharing much power in the Church and often ... ...

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... the fact that the literature of reform is widespread, the peasantry remains largely illiterate. Churches, devoid of visual aids become an abstraction to the illiterate. The spoken words of the preacher become central to the church liturgy. During the Reformation national languages and literature were greatly advanced by the wide dissemination of religious literature written in the languages of the people ... ...

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