Dr Jane Bonsall

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

Thank you!! And @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the cover - I love her so much! 🥰

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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Thanks so much Caroline!

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Aahh thanks Chris!!

Thanks so much!

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.

(the obligatory photo of me cradling my book-child)

Women and Magic in Medieval Romance - Boydell and Brewer Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular l...

If you (or your students) are interested in genre-reading, medieval gender studies, and/or magical women in romance, please give it a read!

#medievalsky #publication #genrestudies #GenderStudies

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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.

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!

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!

So excited to be in the last stages of the process with this! It's such a good chapter 🥰

Thanks for this!!

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

✨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!

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’

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'!

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!

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...

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.

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!

Black and white stylised image of Tristan, dressed in a medieval beggar's hood, carrying Iseut. Artist: Mac Harshberger, in Joseph Bédier, Tristan and Iseult, trans. by Hilaire Belock (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927); repr. online by Robbins Digital Library, https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/publication/harshberger-tristan-and-iseult

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!