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Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum - Tradition, Innovation and Memory (Hardcover)
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Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum - Tradition, Innovation and Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages
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Interdisciplinary study of one of the most important texts of the
Anglo-Norman period. When Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia
Normannorum first appeared in or around 1015, written for the then
Duke of Normandy, Richard II, Dudo created a text without
precedent. By committing the lives and deeds of Richard
II'sancestors to written memory for the first time since the
foundation of Normandy under the Viking Rollo in 911, Dudo provided
the Norman court at Rouen with both an official dynastic
historiography and a treasured record of theircollective past. The
Historia Normannorum was conceived, from the outset, as an
idiosyncratic text which purported to be both staunchly traditional
and remarkably innovative. This book's analysis of the Historiauses
historical and manuscript evidence, alongside literary theory and
approaches from memory studies, to provide fresh insights into the
text. It shows the Historia to be one of the most influential and
important historical narratives of the Middle Ages, perhaps even
the earliest surviving example of an illustrated chronicle from the
entire Latin West. BENJAMIN POHL teaches in the Department of
History, University of Bristol.
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