Seven Sages of Rome Research Project

AHRC and DFG funded project exploring the Seven Sages of Rome/Dolopathos/Book of Sindibad, focusing on gender, genre, and multilingual medieval transmission

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Contact [email protected] for more details 😊

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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 Sept!)

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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. Join us!

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Get in touch with any proposals or questions!

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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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Topics could include:
- Critical methods and approaches (digital, comparative, codicological)
- Language, translation, multilinguality
- Gender and trans studies
- Manuscript and print contexts
- 7S historiography
- Disability, sensory or animal studies - and more!

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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!

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📢✨Job posting!!!✨📢

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

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Perhaps even more enjoyable, though, were the brilliant discussions following Bettina’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!)

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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 Bettina Bildhauer included papers from Ida Toth, Jane Bonsall, Jutta Eming, Ramani Chandramohan, Ruth von Bernuth.

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

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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!

https://t.co/fckrALJMke

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Just one week until the Seven Sages panels at Leeds #IMC2024! Come along next Tuesdays to sessions 739 and 839 for discussions of voice, gender, genre, multilinguality, design, and transmission in across this tradition - then join us in the bar afterward for drinks!

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3pm UK/4pm CET, on zoom!

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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!

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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 as a treat, showed us Seven Sages texts at the Staatsbibliothek!

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

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/ For any Seven Sages enthusiasts in Göttingen: one of our brilliant PIs, Jutta Eming, will be speaking about The Seven Sages project tomorrow! Please come!

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Für alle “Sieben weise Meister”-Begeisterten in Göttingen: Eine unserer herausragenden Projekleiterinnen, Jutta Eming, wird morgen einen Vortrag über die “Sieben Weise Meister” halten! Bitte kommen Sie!