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This volume combines the results of recent excavations at Le Bec with fresh studies of documentary sources, breaking new ground in research on the organization of the monastic site and the cultural life of the community. By examining the abbey's prosperity in terms of its relations with its priories and its dealings with the powerful, especially its noble benefactors and the rulers of Normandy, this volume thus explains the unique importance of the abbey in the history of not only medieval Normandy, but also the Anglo-Norman world more broadly. Contributors are: Pierre Bauduin, Michaël Bloche, Grégory Combalbert, Fabrice Delivré, Gilles Deshayes, Jean-Hervé Foulon, Véronique Gazeau, Lindy Grant, Judith A. Green, Fabien Paquet, and Julie Potter.

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Grégory Combalbert, Ph.D. (2009), Caen Normandy University, is an associate professor at Caen Normandy University. He works on the Church, the Gregorian Reform and Episcopal diplomatics in Normandy and recently published Sauf le droit épiscopal”. Évêques, paroisses et société dans la province ecclésiastique de Rouen (2021). Véronique Gazeau, Ph.D. (1987), Caen Normandy University, is a professor emeritus at Caen Normandy University. She researches monasticism and power in medieval Normandy. Her publications include Normannia Monastica (2007, 2 vols.), an examination of Norman Benedictine abbots and their relationship with the ducal power.

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