Dudo of Saint-Quentin’s Historia Normannorum
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325 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

22 b/w, 4 line illus.

Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages

Series Vol. Number: 1

Imprint: York Medieval Press

Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum

Tradition, Innovation and Memory

by Benjamin Pohl

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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.
Introduction
The Manuscripts
Tradition
Innovation
Memory
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
"This is a useful book, supported by wide reading, careful scholarship, and detailed paleographical research, and it should be read by anyone interested in Dudo and his history, or in the study of Norman historiography and memory more generally." SPECULUM

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Title Details

325 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

22 b/w, 4 line illus.

Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages

Series Vol. Number: 1

Imprint: York Medieval Press