Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans: Translation with Introduction and Notes

by Dudo and Eric Christiansen

This is the first English translation of a powerful work of semi-imaginary history which gave the Normans a past, present, and future at the outset of their triumphant century. Completed in or soon after 1015 by a visiting French scholar, it is a study in verse and prose of one family's rise from defeat and exile in the world of the heathen Vikings to an honoured place among the great territorial rulers of France. It recounts two campaigns in England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851155529
• ISBN13: 9780851155524
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"