The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks ... No fire was allowed and in the early Middle Ages ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to ...

Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the ... others come from the High Middle Ages, and one piece is a new composition by our ...

And it makes sense, as medieval monks have been credited with creating a variety of cheeses. Grana Padano — similar to parmesan — was first made by 12th-century Benedictine monks. Epoisses was ...

St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden at his early monastery in Subiaco near Rome (c. 500). The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the ...

David Slutes has paired up with Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom owner Charlie Levy to create a mid-size midtown music venue in Tucson at the Benedictine Monastery.

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times ... banned from London. One Benedictine monk became ...