Dr Jane Bonsall
@janebonsall.bsky.social
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Post doc on ‘The Seven Sages of Rome’ at St Andrews University | Genre, gender and magic in medieval romance | she/her
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Very surreal, and very exciting, to see the book in the wild!!
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Jane Bonsall just came by our stand at #IMC2025 to show off her latest book "Women and Magic in Medieval Romance". Save 50% and get free shipping on your copy with code BB094 here: buff.ly/R42jWOe @janebonsall.bsky.social #MedievalSky
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Thank you!! And @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the cover - I love her so much! 🥰
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I wrote a blog post about my book!

Want some ramblings about fairy ladies, magical princesses, and serpent women (and how we should feel about them)? Or just curious about how reading medieval romance is like watching Star Wars??

It's all here, folks (and also a 35% discount 👀)!
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From exotic princesses to wicked witches, Jane Bonsall explores how magical femininity was imagined by romance readers in late #medieval England in our latest blog post: buff.ly/edWgwaj @janebonsall.bsky.social
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The UK supreme court today ruled that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to biological sex.

Trump's Executive Order 14168, issued on 20 January, similarly proclaims to be ‘Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’.

Judith Butler: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
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Thanks so much Caroline!
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(the obligatory photo of me cradling my book-child)
Photo of a woman with long brown hair holding a book titled Women and Magic in Medieval Romance in front of a wood-panelled wall.
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Publication news - it’s been a long time coming, but the monograph is finally here!! I’m so delighted to have it out in the world!

So many thanks to the team at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and especially the brilliant @canarycaroline.bsky.social for the incredible support and editorial insight!
A stack of dark green books with the title ‘Women and Magic in Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality, and Power’ by Jane Bonsall, with the image of a woman on horseback on the cover.
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In case anyone in Edinburgh is free on Tuesday and wants to come listen to me chat about ways of tackling multilingual narratives, the impact of adaptation, and the (surprisingly contemporary) dynamics of medieval gender politics in very strange texts, here's your chance!
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📜 In our next session we welcome back former @uoe-llc.bsky.social PhD student @janebonsall.bsky.social, as she discusses her ongoing work within a collaborative research project exploring perhaps the most famous pre-modern text that you’ve never heard of!

#History #Edinburgh #HCA #Seminars
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Stumbled upon another very generous review of 'Medieval Mobilities' (ed by me, @janebonsall.bsky.social, and Meg Khoury) by Maria Gloria Tumminelli ⭐ So nice to see the book being read out there! ceraejournal.com/wp-content/u...
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Anyone particularly confident with early modern paleography?? This is such a lovely suggestion about readers' multilingual interactions with early prints, and the Seven Sages in particular!
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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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So excited to be in the last stages of the process with this! It's such a good chapter 🥰
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The Seven Sages panels at Leeds this year were excellent (and really fun!) - join us for next year!
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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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✨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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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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Really excited for #IMC2024 - come and hear me talk about the politics of adaptation, storytelling, and gender in 'The Seven Sages of Rome'!
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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 Leeds International Medieval Congress programme description for session 739, titled 'New Perspectives on the Global Story Matter 'The Seven Sages of Rome', II: Global Transmissions
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It's great to be able to share what I've been working on for the last year (though still very much in progress!)! 😀 If you're interested in digital humanities work, #medieval manuscript studies, or the 'Seven Sages' tradition, please have a look around - I'd love to get your thoughts on this!
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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! 🤓

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7sagesresearch.bsky.social
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
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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.