Dr Jane E Bonsall

Medievalist / Feminist / PhD on gender, magic, and intertextual reading from @LLCatEdinburgh / researching anticipation in popular narratives / she/hers

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

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!)

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

✨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!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

@lauravarnam @BasilAPrice @ArtemisiasJ As Basil said, so so glad you’re enjoying it! Thanks Laura!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Any Greek/German 'Seven Sages'/'Syntipas' enthusiasts looking for a post/pre-doc role?!

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

📢✨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.

https://t.co/cHzNO2ZCph

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

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.

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

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 or the 'Seven Sages' tradition, please have a look around - I'd love to get your thoughts on this!

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

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

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Come and hear me talk about the politics of adaptation, storytelling, and gender in 'The Seven Sages of Rome' - so excited about this!

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

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!

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

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!

[Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7SagesResearch]

We hold a monthly virtual reading group exploring different versions of the Seven Sages tradition! Tomorrow's discussion will include: inexplicable ageism; analogues for the Tristan-as-beggar fidelity trick; what✨magic spells✨ are most useful for committing robbery. Join us!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

@WillTattersdill YES Will!! So excited to read this!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Just a few more days to grab your tickets to this! @ScotStoryCentre #medieval #storytelling ⚖️

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Very excited about this event! Caitlin Flynn and I organised this adaptation of the Scots 'Seven Sages' story - can't wait to share these brilliant makars' work reflecting on the stories we tell about gendered power and violence, and who we choose to believe.

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

And as a side note: this also lines up neatly with the dates for #Scoticonference hosted by @univofstandrews @StAndrewsSAIMS @ISHRStAndrews - if any conference attendees fancy an evening in Edinburgh, it's only a short train ride away!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Very excited about this event! Caitlin Flynn and I organised this adaptation of the Scots 'Seven Sages' story - can't wait to share these brilliant makars' work reflecting on the stories we tell about gendered power and violence, and who we choose to believe.

[Scottish Storytelling Centre @ScotStoryCentre]

What might we learn from medieval narratives about violence, gender, and truth-telling? Laura Lewis Cameron, @shona_cowie, Mae Diansangu, Harry Josephine Giles, @djlawrenson, Victoria McNulty, @waveandbolt & Donald Smith
🎟️https://t.co/ffM9io6Zq2

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Edinburgh folks, please come along! https://t.co/Q09IBvA5ul

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

@lauravarnam It is!! If you fancy a trip Edinburgh, let me know Laura 😁

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

@DaisyEBlack It was such an exciting workshop - thanks again for your help, Daisy! 🥰

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

@TSWingard It was lovely to (finally!) meet you in person, Tess - and congratulations!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

The conversations this week have been inspiring and galvanising, and I’m excited to carry them forward as I start digging into the (very!) entangled networks of the Seven Sages of Rome narratives!

[Dr Jane E Bonsall @JaneEBonsall]

Still recovering from the blissful overwhelm of #IMC2023 - what a delight to hear so many extraordinary papers, and spend time with friends new and old! The conversations begun by @BasilAPrice and @OrtonBrittanyJ ‘s excellent panels on silence/silencing feel important & exciting!

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Best, however, is the homecoming: I got to begin my first real job as a medievalist (!!!) with the wonderful @BBildhauer while surrounded by reminders of just how much I love this work.