Nothing on 1200 itself. Its value is texture: the manners, rumours and jokes of the Angevin court Map served, stories of the Welsh March where he was born, the Cistercians he hated, and portraits of men still alive in 1200 such as the old curialists and churchmen. Optional, and to be used for colour, not fact.
About this source
- Title
- De nugis curialium
- Author
- Walter Map
- Author's dates
- about 1130 to about 1209 or 1210; archdeacon of Oxford from 1196
- Written
- about 1181 to 1193
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- anecdotes of Henry II's court and the Welsh border, 1150s to 1190s
- Kind
- Collection of sources
The Tupper and Ogle translation was published in London in 1924 and its copyright status outside the United States should be checked before reuse.
Where to read it
Editions
- T. Wright (ed.), Gualteri Mapes De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque, Camden Society (1850)
- M. R. James (ed. and trans.), revised by C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors, Oxford Medieval Texts (1983), not free (not freely online)
Translations
Read it online
- Wright's Latin text at the Internet Archive
- Tupper and Ogle's English translation at the Internet Archive