Main Menu | List of entries | finished

ARRIUS had a friend, Latumyus, who owned a beautiful, lush tree on which his wives hanged themselves. He eagerly begged Latumyus for a cutting to plant in his own garden, hoping for similar results. The story appears in Walter Map's Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum philosophum ne uxorem ducat, De nugis curialium IV.3 (c. 1180-1183).

Jankyn tells Dame Alys, his wife, this story from his collection, WBP 757-764. [Latumyus: Valerius]

Arrius appears in final rhyming position, WBP 758, 762.


Walter Map, De nugis curialium, Courtiers Trifles, ed. and trans. M.R. James, rev. C.N.L. Brooke and R.A.B. Mynors, 202-203; R.A. Pratt, "Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wives: Medieval Antimatrimonial Propaganda in the Universities." AnM 3 (1962): 5-27.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

Main Menu | List of entries | finished