Dominicans

Thomas Moulton , a Dominican monk, published his Myrour or Glasse of Helthe, the first book on medicine for lay people. It went through at least seventeen editions in the next fifty years.

The Irish Presentation Order of nuns was founded in Dublin, to educate the poor, by Honora ('Nano') Nagle (who came from Catholic gentry stock in County Cork, and had independent wealth); they opened their...