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Dr Jane Bonsall

@janebonsall.bsky.social
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Post doc on ‘The Seven Sages of Rome’ at St Andrews University | Genre, gender and magic in medieval romance | she/her

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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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!
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very surreal, and very exciting, to see the book in the wild!!
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/04/2025
The UK supreme court today ruled that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to biological sex. Trump's Executive Order 14168, issued on 20 January, similarly proclaims to be ‘Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’. Judith Butler: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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!
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.
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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!
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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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...
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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!
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The Seven Sages panels at Leeds this year were excellent (and really fun!) - join us for next year!
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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
✨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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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
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.
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’
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Really excited for #IMC2024 - come and hear me talk about the politics of adaptation, storytelling, and gender in 'The Seven Sages of Rome'!
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Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
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!
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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
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...
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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
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!
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.
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Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
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!
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
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