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IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 739: New Perspectives on the Global Story Matter The Seven Sages of Rome, I: Gender and Genre

Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14:15-15:45

Sponsor:The Seven Sages of Rome Collaborative Research Project
Organiser:Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages - German, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages - German, University of St Andrews
Paper 739-a'The tales we tell will mak wir warld': Gender and Voice in Modern Performance of the Seven Sages
(Language: English)
Jane Bonsall, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism and Performance Arts - Drama
Paper 739-bWisdom and Women in the Yiddish Seven Sages
(Language: English)
Ruth von Bernuth, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Index terms: Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative and Language and Literature - Semitic
Paper 739-cThe Seven Sages of Rome and the Crisis of Narration
(Language: English)
Jutta Eming, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative and Language and Literature - German
Abstract

The Seven Sages of Rome, also known as Dolopathos or Book of Sindibad/ Syntipas/ Sendebar, was transmitted in at least 30 languages in pre-modernity, but remains virtually unknown. These two linked sessions emerge from a collaborative project establishing a basis for multilingual philological and literary analysis of the story matter, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK and the German Research Foundation. The first of the session centres on questions of gender and narrative genre, as most versions of this text deal with a false rape accusation raised by a woman against a boy, and female and male parties argue over the matter by telling embedded narratives. The second session attends to the global transmission of the text and its variations in manuscripts and prints.