In all these centuries, few people knew how to read and write. Product of ignorance, there were many superstitions. However, in the monasteries they became places of study and diffusion of practices of agriculture, horticulture, and livestock. Next to it, beautiful cathedrals were built in the Romantic style and then, in the Lower Middle Ages, in the Gothic style. Benito began to form these monasteries, that is why the monks were called Benedectine