New Research on the Abbey of Le Bec in the Middle Ages

Sources, History, Archaeology
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70197-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

Reihe: Anselm Studies and Texts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Combalbert, Grégory

Gazeau, Véronique

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: A New Step in the History of Le Bec

Grégory Combalbert and Véronique Gazeau

2 The Abbot’s Pastoral Power among Princes and Bishops: A Crucial Issue for the Le Bec Community (c.1034–c.1139)

Jean-Hervé Foulon

3 HenryI and the Abbey of Le Bec

JudithA. Green

4 The Foundation and Early History of the Bec Priory of Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle

Julie Potter

5 A Forgotten Privilege: An Act of John, Bishop of Lisieux, concerning the Parish of Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle (1107/41)

Grégory Combalbert

6 Medieval Seals of the Abbots and Abbey of Le Bec

Michaël Bloche

7 Canons and Decretals at the Abbey of Le Bec (11th–12th Centuries

Fabrice Delivré

8 New Research concerning the ‘Chronicle of Le Bec’

Fabien Paquet

9 Principal Results of Archaeological Excavations Undertaken at the Abbey of Le Bec-Hellouin in 2015 and 2018

Gilles Deshayes

10 The Architecture of the Abbey of Le Bec in the 12th and 13th Centuries

Lindy Grant

11 Conclusion: The Revisited Memories of the Abbey of Le Bec-Hellouin

Pierre Bauduin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.