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

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 👀)!

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...

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!

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!

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...

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!