Walter Map

Walter Map (* around 1140 ; † between 1208 and 1210 ) was an English writer of Welsh origin.

Map studied at the University of Paris theology , later became archdeacon in Oxford and worked as an important scholar at the court of King Henry II. In 1179 he was a delegate at the Third Lateran Council .

The only surviving work that can be safely assigned to him is De Nugi's Curialium (1181–1193).

Work edition

• Gualteri Mapes De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque , ed. Thomas Wright. London: Camden Society, 1850 (Latin text, online )
• Walter Map, De nugis curialium , ed.MR James . Oxford, 1914. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Medieval and modern series, 6 (Latin text).
• Walter Map's De nugis curialium , tr.MR James. 1923. Cymmrodorion Record Series no. 9 (translation).
• Walter Map: De nugis curialium. Courtiers' trifles . Edited and translated by MR James. Revised by CNL Brooke and RAB Mynors. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-19-822236-X (Latin text with English translation).

literature

• Max Manitius : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages . Third part (volume) with Paul Lehmann's participation: From the outbreak of the church dispute to the end of the twelfth century . Munich 1931, pp. 264-274 ( HdAW 9.2.3).
• Elisabeth Stein: Walter Map , in: Lexikon des Mittelalters VIII, Sp. 1997–1998.
• Andreas Bihrer:  Walter Map (around 1130 / 35–1209 or 1210). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1550-1555.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Map in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature on Walter Map in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii