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De Nugis Curialium (Latin, Paperback)
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De Nugis Curialium (Latin, Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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Walter Map was a twelfth-century courtier and royal servant. He was
a prolific writer, but De Nugis Curialium ('Courtiers' Trifles') is
the only surviving work confidently attributed to him. The book is
a collection of short stories and anecdotes about the court,
religion and history. Map's references demonstrate that he read
widely, not only biblical and theological works, but also classical
authors such as Horace, Virgil, Ovid and Juvenal. The only
surviving manuscript of the work is a fourteenth-century copy once
belonging to the monk John Wells of Ramsey Abbey. The Cambridge
bibliographer M. R. James would have been attracted to the breadth
of Map's referencing, and the author's light-hearted writing style
which was intended to entertain. James' 1914 Oxford publication
corrected the earlier work of Thomas Wright who published an
edition for the Camden Society in 1850.
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