Dominican missionary network

Timeline

1. 1220–1310Paris and Bologna · Western EuropeDominicans established theology chairs at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, and other universities, training preachers in scholastic dialectic and forming a pan-European network of knowledge production and heresy prosecution.
2. 1311–1320Vienna · AustriaThe Council of Vienna (1311–1312) discussed religious poverty, clerical power, and the Crusades; the Dominicans, as an important participating order, consolidated their global preaching discipline and ties to the papacy.
3. 1313–1350Mission stations in Persia and China · AsiaIn the early 14th century Dominicans followed Mongol Empire trade routes into Persia and China, establishing small mission stations in the Ilkhanate and major cities, sharing the eastern preaching frontier with the Franciscans.