• De nugis curialium (Medieval Latin for "Of the trifles of courtiers" or loosely "Trinkets for the Court") is the major surviving work of the 12th-century...
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    (Columbia University Press, 1943, repr. Octagon Books, 1976. Walter Map, De nugis curialium, ed. and tr. by M.R. James, rev. by C.N.L. Brooke and R.A.B. Mynors...
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    Gualterius Mappus; 1130 – c. 1209/1210) was a medieval writer. He wrote De nugis curialium, which takes the form of a series of anecdotes of people and places...
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    all succubi were malevolent. According to Walter Map in the satire De nugis curialium (Trifles of Courtiers), Pope Sylvester II (999–1003) was allegedly...
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  • Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. Map's tale occurs in two versions in his De nugis curialium. The first and longer account, found in section 1.12, provides far...
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    sometimes rendered as "The Statesman's Book". Its original subtitle was De nugis curialium et uestigiis philosophorum, "On the Frivolities of Courtiers and the...
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    Revenant (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Map, Walter. De nugis curialium. William of Newburgh. Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English...
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    works, published almost certainly in 1159, the Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum and the Metalogicon, writings invaluable...
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    Giraldus Cambrensis "De rebus a se gestis" in Opera I p. 58. Ibid. Giraldus Cambrensis Itinerary p. 113. Turvey p. 24. Map De Nugis Curialium quoted in Turvey...
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  • on the Gospel of Matthew) and Policraticus Iohannis Salabriensis de nugis curialium (a 14th-century manuscript of John of Salisbury's Policraticus) –...
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    Peter Waldo (redirect from Pierre de Vaux)
    Gaules et de la France (in Latin). Vol. XIII. Paris. 1786. Map, Walter (1924) [after 1192]. "Of the Sect of the Waldenses". De Nugis Curialium. Translated...
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    helpfulness. The phrase is first attested in Walter Map's 12th-century De nugis curialium, in whose fourth chapter the character Eudo adhered to inverted morality...
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  • came to be drawn from all across northern Europe. Walter Map in his De nugis curialium written about 1180 described the origins of the Brabançons thus: A...
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  • through the generations without ever being sold. Walter Map, in his De nugis curialium, recounts a legend where Edric and a hunting companion come across...
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    ISBN 978-0742570320. Retrieved 16 April 2018. Map, Walter (1983). De Nugis Curialium or Courtiers' Trifles (in Latin and English). Edited and translated...
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    celebrated for the salvation of their souls. Walter Map, in his work, De nugis curialium, tells a story that "the King of Portugal now living", almost certainly...
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    reproduced in 1868 as Caricature History of the Georges) Mapes, De nugis curialium (1850, 4to, Camden Society) Geoffrey Gaimar's Metrical Chronicle (1850...
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  • Chronicle (Chronicon) 732–1201 Walter Map, Trifles of the Court (De Nugis Curialium) (died 1209/1210) Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae 1191, Descriptio...
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  • Volume 22. Carlo Clausen. James, Montague (1923). Walter Map's "De Nugis Curialium". Honorable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 204–205. ISBN 9788124107447...
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    volumes. He was the principal author of editions of Walter Map's De nugis curialium and of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. In 1947, he collaborated with...
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  • centuries after his death. In Walter Map's twelfth century work titled De nugis curialium, 'Lucilia' is the name of a woman who murders her husband by giving...
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    Salisbury (1938) [1159]. Pike, Joseph B. (ed.). Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum [Frivolities of courtiers and footprints...
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    Wild Hunt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    A Survey of English Ghost Lore. p.5. Kessinger Publishing, 1941. De Nugis Curialium by Walter Map. Briggs 1978, "Wild Hunt", p. 436. Mesnée d’Hellequin...
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    succession of kings of France. Montaubin 2016, p. 117. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, p. 285. Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England...
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    that they seemed invited guests, not seekers of alms." — Walter Map: De nugis curialium From around 1150 to 1156, Lucas studied at the University of Paris...
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    Reissued by the publisher, 2009. ISBN 978-1-108-00307-0 Walter Map : De Nugis Curialium (ed.) Anecdota Oxoniensia; Mediaeval and Modern Series 14. Oxford :...
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  • Marcel Schwob, La légende de Serlon de Wilton. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium 2.4. Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae 2.33. Serlon de Wilton. Poèmes latins...
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  • study of Sándor Hunyadi in 2016). Walter Map narrates in his work De nugis curialium that Archbishop Lucas reconciled with Stephen III a year before the...
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    (innumeras Barbararum nationum secum trahens copias); Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium 2.18 (Turks). Niketas Choniates, Histories pp. 260–274 van Dieten...
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  • Salisbury, Joannis Saresberiensis Episcopi Carnotensis Policratici sive de Nugis Curialium et Vestigiis Philosophorum libri VIII (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909)...
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