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 ...

The newly uncovered painting depicts a motif that was popular in the late Middle Ages. In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel drives a unicorn into a closed garden and into the lap ...

cloisters and a garden. They also needed a medieval street, a vast expanse of land and a forest (preferably close to the monastery location). Armed with this brief the producers scoured England ...