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:

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!

📢✨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!

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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.

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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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!

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!

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!

Für alle “Sieben weisen Meister”-Begeisterten in Göttingen: Eine unserer herausragenden Projektleiterinnen, Jutta Eming, wird morgen einen Vortrag über die “Sieben weisen Meister” halten! Bitte kommt!

Jutta Eming will be speaking about the Seven Sages project tomorrow in Göttingen - please come!

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!

This account is new, but the study of the textual tradition of the Seven Sages is not! The Seven Sages Network met in November 2022, for the Oxford-Berlin Workshop: "The Seven Sages of Rome: A Global Narrative Tradition", organised by Ida Toth (Oxford) and Jutta Eming (Berlin).

A few months into our project, we now digitally exist (on multiple platforms!)! Come and say hello if you're interested in frame stories, manuscript studies, gender in medieval narratives, and multilingual transmission of pre-modern popular texts!