Dominicans confirmed as a preaching order

1216

Honorius III confirmed Dominic de Guzman's austere Order of Preachers, trained to out-argue heretics in the lecture halls and marketplaces of Languedoc. The black-robed friars would soon supply the Inquisition's most learned and most feared interrogators. Unlike the monks of older orders, the Dominicans embraced the cities, mastering university theology and popular preaching with equal ferocity and intellectual rigor.