Editing Walter Map (section)

==Writings==
A man of the world, with a large circle of courtly acquaintances, including [[Gerald of Wales]], "Map had a contemporary reputation as a wit and story teller."<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20058003 Edwards, Robert R. "Walter Map: Authorship and the Space of Writing". ''New Literary History'', vol. 38, no. 2, 2007, pp. 273–292. JSTOR]</ref> His only surviving work, ''[[De Nugis Curialium]]'' (''Trifles of Courtiers'') is a collection of anecdotes and trivia, containing court gossip and a little real history, and written in a satirical vein. "In its form hardly more than the undigested reminiscences and notes of a man of the world with a lively sense of humour, ... it is, indeed, in some sense a keen satire on the condition of church and state in the writer's own day ... [and] of considerable interest; especially noticeable are his accounts of the Templars and Hospitallers, and his sketch of the English court and kings from the reign of William II to his own time."<ref name=dnb/>

Along with [[William of Newburgh]], Map recorded the [[Medieval revenants|earliest stories]] of English [[vampires]]. The French-language [[Prose Lancelot]] cycle claims "Gautier Map" as an author, though this is contradicted by internal evidence; some scholars have suggested that he wrote a  [[Lancelot]] romance, now lost, that was the source for the later cycle. Others say that, since Map's supposed patron was the King of England, it would have been more likely for him to have written an English tale about King Arthur, Gawain or some other “English” hero, rather than a French one. Map was also said to have written a quantity of [[Goliardic poetry]], including the satirical ''[[Apocalypse of Golias]]''.