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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Such a pronounced frown, yes!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Ah thank you!! And isn't it??

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Amazing!! Thank you!!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Another woodcut page was also annotated in English ("and if it maye pleasse y[our?] g[re]ace"), also possibly from the perspective of the sage...?!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

It seems like the annotation is (charmingly!) a sort of speech bubble from the sage addressing the king, but my paleography is beyond rusty - any ideas?!

'My lord & kyng
this is the thinge
that d[...]ets my a[...] of[...]
& can[?...] [e?...h?...d] this bould[...]
form t[...]nge ys[?] would it'

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

The text is a late 15th c. print of the Latin 'Historia Septem Sapientum', printed in Gouda by Gerard Leeu, found in the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections (listed in our database here: db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/Hisoria_sept...).

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy new year #MedievalSky! Any late medieval/early modern paleographers out there? At the (absolutely brilliant!) Scottish Manuscripts conference in December, organised by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, @bryonycoombs.bsky.social and W. R. Pierce, we came across this lovely annotation:

Black and white woodcut image from a 15th century Dutch print showing a king and advisor in conference, with handwritten annotations.

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 11

We invite proposals (for papers/roundtable contributions) on any aspects of The Seven Sages, including but not limited to gender, genre, global transmission, multilinguality, philology, politics, intertexts, history of scholarship, or modern reception. Email [email protected] for more details!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 11

We are looking for contributions exploring the centrality of this story matter to premodern cultures, and, given its huge spread, its potential as a paradigmatic example for the pancontinental connectedness of medieval literature.

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thinking about #IMC2025 but haven't submitted a proposal for yet? Interested in Seven Sages/Sindbad/Dolopathos research? Send us a proposed topic and join our exciting panels: '1000 manuscripts, 30 languages, one story: From Sindbad to the Seven Sages'! (Deadline 15 September!)

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Get in touch with @bmeb.bsky.social or @janebonsall.bsky.social with proposals or questions!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Possible topics could include:
- Critical methods and approaches to 7S (digital, comparative, codicological)
- Language, translation, multilinguality
- Gender and trans studies
- Manuscript and print contexts
- History of 7S scholarship
- Disability/sensory studies
- Animal studies - and more!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨CFP!✨ Interested in writing about the Seven Sages/Sindibad/Syntipas/Dolopathos? Please send us your proposals for articles on any aspect of the story matter, for publication (! open access!!!) in the Open Library of the Humanities Journal. Deadline 1st October!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is part of the Einstein BUA/Oxford research project titled 'The Seven Sages of Rome Revisited: Striving for an Alternative Literary History' - so exciting to see more 'Seven Sages' research in the works! Please share widely!

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

PG-Predoc_JE_BUA_SSoR_2_24

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢✨Job posting!!!✨📢

Post-doc Research Assistant (3 yrs, ft, medieval/early modern Greek) and Pre-doc Research Assistant (3 yrs, 0.75, medieval/early modern Greek and/or German), jointly supervised by Prof Jutta Eming, FU Berlin and Dr Ida Toth, Oxford!

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

PG-Postdoc_JE_BUA_SSoR_3_24

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Perhaps even more enjoyable, though, were the brilliant discussions following @bmeb.bsky.social’s response, and the chance to hold our monthly reading group in person - including recruiting some new members! (As a reminder, all are welcome, no particular Seven Sages expertise needed!)

Mid discussion at the terrace bar at Leeds IMC.

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Finally recovered from the joyful exhaustion (and covid!) of #IMC2024 (hence the belated post) and already looking forward to 2025! The brilliant panels, organised by @bmeb.bsky.social, included papers from Ida Toth, @janebonsall.bsky.social, Jutta Eming, Ramani Chandramohan, Ruth Avon Bernuth.

Photo of Prof Ida Toth, University of Oxford, presenting on the Byzantine text Syntipas.

Photo of Jane Bonsall presenting her PowerPoint at Leeds IMC; the slide reads ‘Adapting the Seven Sages of Scotland: Process’

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jun 25

The database will eventually catalogue all (!!!) known #medieval #manuscripts containing versions of the narrative, across all branches and languages, including their embedded stories and location info - for now, the English, German and French MSs are recorded, with Latin and Hebrew coming soon!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jun 25

Some exciting news: the project's database is now publically visible! 👀 Though still in process, we are really excited to share the beta version of the site - hopefully a useful tool for studying the Seven Sages/Dolopathos/Sindibad manuscript tradition! 🤓

db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/index.php/Ma...

Seven Sages of Rome

db.seven-sages-of-rome.org

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just once more week until our Seven Sages panels at #IMC2024! Come join us for some exciting discussions in sessions 739 and 839 - which we will then continue afterward in the bar!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · May 14

Just under two months to go before Leeds IMC! Make sure you have space in your dance cards for two 'Seven Sages' sessions on Tuesday afternoon (sessions 739 and 839) thinking through voice, gender, genre, multilinguality, design, and transmission. Join us!

Leeds International Medieval Congress programme description for session 739, titled 'New Perspectives on the Global Story Matter 'The Seven Sages of Rome', I: Gender and Genre

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Mar 27

3pm UK/4 pm CET, on zoom!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Mar 27

Feeling just a little *too* cheerful this week? Join our reading group on Friday for some very sad stories about some very good dogs, as we compare versions of the ‘faithful hound’ tale from different parts of the #medieval Seven Sages tradition!

Image of the painting Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (c.1894); a dog stands guard over a child sleeping peacefully on the ground, while a dead wolf lies next to an overturned cradle in the background.

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Mar 18

Jutta Eming and Rita Schlusemann hosted the rest of the team (Bettina Bildhauer, Jane Bonsall) and Ad Board (Ida Toth, Csilla Gabor, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Mohsen Zakeri, Bea Lundt, Ulrich Marzolph) at the FU, and took us to see Seven Sages texts in the Staatsbibliothek - both fascinating and fun!

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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · Mar 18

The best part of research projects is collaboration, conversation, connections: we’re still buzzing after a brilliant meeting with the team and our advisory board in Berlin last month, and excited to see where those conversations will lead us!

A photograph of ten academics standing standing on the steps of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek, in front of neoclassical columns and stonework. Front row: Ida Toth, Rita Schlusemann, Jane Bonsall, Jutta Eming, Csilla Gabor; back row: Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Mohsen Zakeri, Bettina Bildhauer, Bea Lundt, Ulrich Marzolph.

Ten standing academics (Ulrich Marzolph, Rita Schlusemann, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Ida Toth, Bea Lundt, Bettina Bildhauer, Mohsen Zakeri, Csilla Gabor, an archivist from the Staatsbibliothek, and Jutta Eming,)are grouped behind one of the Staatsbibliothek's archivists, who is kneeling and holding a medieval manuscript.

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