Nigel de Longchamps

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Nigel de Longchamps, also known as Nigel Wireker, (fl. c. 1190, died c. 1200),

Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1186 to 1193, and perhaps earlier (he claims to have met Thomas Becket
, killed in 1170).

Works

Speculum stultorum

He is the author of the

Cistercian monk with dogs. He then goes to Paris to study, but makes no progress there, being unable to remember the city's name after eight years of study. He then decides to join a religious order
, but instead founds a new one by taking the easiest parts from the rules of other orders. Finally, his master recaptures him.

The poem was immensely popular for centuries. Under the title "Daun Burnel the Asse" it is mentioned by

Canterbury Tales, in the Nun's Priest's Tale
.

Other works

Many other short Latin poems from a thirteenth-century manuscript are attributed to him, along with a prose treatise, Contra Curiales et Officinales Clericos. This treatise is an affectionate reproof to

William Longchamp the Chancellor, in his role as Bishop of Ely
. Wireker takes his intimate friend (possibly a relative) to task for attempting to combine Church with State.

Bibliography

  • Miracles of the Virgin; Tract on Abuses, ed. and trans. Jan M. Ziolkowski and Ronald E. Pepin, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 75 (Cambridge, MA, 2022) – facing-page Latin text and English translation
  • A Mirror for Fools: The Book of Burnel the Ass, trans. John H. Mozley (Oxford, 1961) – English translation
  • Speculum Stultorum, ed. John H. Mozley and Robert R. Raymo (Berkeley, 1960) – critical edition of the Latin text
  • The Book of Daun Burnel the Ass: Nigellus Wireker's Speculum Stultorum, trans. Graydon W. Regenos (Austin, 1959) – English translation
  • Ward, Catalogue of Romances (London, 1883–93)
  • Wright, The Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets (London, 1874)

Notes

  1. ^ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink n86094078".
  • wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
    New International Encyclopedia
     (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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