Medievalists.net » Dudo of Saint Quentin http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Trickster, Convert, Martyr, Saint: Four Ways of Dying in Dudo of St. Quentin’s History of the Normans http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/trickster-convert-martyr-saint-four-ways-of-dying-in-dudo-of-st-quentins-history-of-the-normans/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/trickster-convert-martyr-saint-four-ways-of-dying-in-dudo-of-st-quentins-history-of-the-normans/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:27:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38079 I want to push this a bit further here and argue that Dudo was aiming to produce something that we might term sacramentary history, to show the three-fold interaction of the linear time experienced by fallen humanity, the cyclical time in which events are continually re-enacted and foreshadowed in the sacraments, and the unchanging eternity of time as experienced by God.

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