SOURCE: "Underground Treasures: The Other Worlds of William Malmesbury, William of Newburgh, and Walter Map" in Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 93-128.
In the following excerpt, Otter describes Map as "an extremely self-aware narrator," blurring the lines between fiction and fact as other Medieval historians have done, but more intensely aware than they seem to have been that his "history" lacks a reliable foundation.
This is a free excerpt of 75 words. There are 6,968 words (approx.
23 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Walter Map c. 1140-c. 1209: Critical Essay by Monika Otter Access Pass.
