It was such a pleasure to attend #NCS2026, and I can’t imagine a better place to have debuted my Seven Sages storytelling show - complete with highly melodramatic poses, apparently!Particularly grateful for the lovely audience who cheerfully played along with the ‘choose your own adventure’ format!

Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 6d ago

#NCS2026 Jane’s performance of stories from the Seven Sages of Rome collection was fantastic! Moving, amusing, entertaining- brava! 👏 Excited to chat further with Jane about adapting medieval stories for @guildmedmak.bsky.social soon!

Very surreal, and very exciting, to see the book in the wild!!

Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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 👀)!

Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · last yr.

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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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!

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!

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)@cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · last yr.

📜 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

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...

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!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project@7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

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:

The Seven Sages panels at Leeds this year were excellent (and really fun!) - join us for next year!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project@7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!)

✨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!

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.

Really excited for #IMC2024 - come and hear me talk about the politics of adaptation, storytelling, and gender in 'The Seven Sages of Rome'!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project@7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!

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!

Seven Sages of Rome Research Project@7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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...

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!

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