Bec Abbey,
formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (French: Abbaye
Notre-Dame du Bec),
is a Benedictine monastic
foundation in the Eure
département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and
Bernay. It is located in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France,
and was formerly the most influential abbey of
the 12th-century Anglo-Norman
kingdom.
Like all abbeys, Bec maintained annals of the house but
uniquely its first abbots also received individual biographies, brought
together by the monk of Bec, Milo Crispin. Because of the
abbey's cross-Channel influence, these hagiographic lives sometimes
disclose historical information of more than local importance.
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