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      Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

      THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES

      Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor

      Edward Peters, Founding Editor

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      Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

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      Joshua Byron Smith

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      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

      PHILADELPHIA

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Name: Smith, Joshua Byron, author.

      Title: Walter Map and the matter of Britain / Joshua Byron Smith.

      Other titles: Middle Ages series.

      Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] | Series: The Middle Ages series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016056690 | ISBN 9780812249323 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Map, Walter, active 1200. | Map, Walter, active 1200. De nugis curialium. | Latin literature, Medieval and modern—England—History and criticism. | English literature—Middle English, 1100–1500—History and criticism. | English literature—Middle English, 1100–1500—Celtic influences.

      Classification: LCC PA8380.Z5 S65 2017 | DDC 878/.0307—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056690

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       Contents

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       List of Abbreviations

       A Note on Translations

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. Walter Map, Wales, and Romance

       Chapter 2. Works Frozen in Revision

       Chapter 3. Glosses and a Contrived Book

       Chapter 4. From Herlething to Herla

       Chapter 5. The Welsh-Latin Sources of the De nugis curialium

       Chapter 6. Walter Map in the Archives and the Transmission of the Matter of Britain

       Epilogue

       Appendix. A Preliminary List of Suspected Interpolated Glosses in the De nugis curialium

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

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CPGCContes pour les gens de cour, trans. Alan Keith Bate (Turnhout: Brepols, 1993).
DMLBSDictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, ed. R. E. Latham et al. (London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1975–2013).
DNCWalter Map, De nugis curialium: Courtiers’ Trifles, ed. and trans. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
GCOGiraldi Cambrensis opera, ed. J. S. Brewer, James F. Dimock, and George F. Warner, 8 vols. (London: Longman, 1861–91).
GPCGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, ed. R. J. Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1950–2002).
HRBGeoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of “De gestis Britonum,” ed. Michael D. Reeve, trans. Neil Wright (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007).
LSMPeter Stotz, Handbuch zur lateinische Sprache des Mittelalters, 5 vols. (Munich: Beck, 1996–2004). [References are to book, page, and section number.]
OLDOxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. G. W. Glare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).

       A Note on Translations

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      With the exception of the History of the Kings of Britain, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, and the Vulgate, all translations, including those from the De nugis curialium, are mine unless otherwise noted. Translations from the Vulgate are the Douay-Rheims.

      Introduction

      In either 1209 or 1210, Walter Map, a British churchman, courtier, and writer, died. While

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