Conclusion
When Dudo published his work during the second decade of eleventh century, he created a text without precedent. In HN, lives and deeds Richard I Normandy ancestors were committed to writing for first time, providing Norman rulers with an ‘official’ dynastic historiography treasured record their collective past. choosing narrate history its ruling family by means serial biography, which composed in complex sophisticated style Latin prosimetrum, revealed himself be highly innovative writer. As argued Chapter 3, there is also evidence suggest that HN was designed, from outset, as illustrated chronicle, making it one kind medieval Normandy, perhaps even earliest examples survive anywhere West. At same however, remarkably traditional how situated within established historiographical canon post-Carolingian Europe. Implementing elaborate vision translatio et imitatio imperii, discussed detail 2, positioned itself strategically between classical historians poets Antiquity high historiographies French, German English crowns.