Walter Map (Gualteri Mapes) wrote De nugis curialium in Latin in the court of Henry II, probably in the early 1180s. The text apparently didn’t circulate. It survives in only one manuscript, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 851 (3041). De nugis curialium is a witty, learned work that satires the courtier’s life, celebrates friendship between men, and protests men’s subservience to women and men’s victimization by women, particularly in marriage.
In Gulinus’s palace in St Patrick’s Purgatory, a medieval knight in love with Gulinus’s daughter suffers penal tortures in a vision of unfruitful misandry. … Read the post Gulinus tortured knight for love in misandristic, unfruitful vineyard
In a romance from the 12th-century De nugis curialium, Galo’s friend Sadius intervened to help end the queen’s sexual harassment of him. … Read the post sexual harassment of men in the Middle Ages: the case of Galo
The 12th-century Latin story of Parius and Lausus instructs about the dangers of not speaking openly about bad breath in close personal relationships. … Read the post do not hide your face from me: Parius’s bad-breath conspiracy
The story of Raso in Walter Map’s twelfth-century Latin work De Nugis Curialium shows the importance of men carefully guarding beloved horses. … Read the post horse saves foolish, slumbering Raso in De Nugis Curialium
The medieval Rollo, an eminent, prosperous knight, had a beautiful wife. Ignorant of the feminine imperative, he was nearly cuckolded by Resus. … Read the post Resus saves medieval Rollo, ignorant of feminine imperative