Bec Abbey

Bec Abbey, the ruins of which are at Bec-Hellouin, Normandy, $2\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles from Brioune, was at the height of its fame as a great Benedictine monastery in the middle of the 11th century, when the famous Lanfranc was prior. His fame as a scholar had made it one of the most renowned seats of learning in Western Europe, students flocked thither from all parts, and gifts were bestowed upon it by the great men of Normandy. The great Anselm, entering it in 1060, was abbot from 1078 to 1093, when he succeeded Lanfranc in the see of Canterbury.