The Most Famous Premodern Text You Have Never Heard Of

Arts and Humanities Research Council and German Research Foundation give green light to project between Freie Universität Berlin and University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation (DFG) have approved funding for a joint project between Freie Universität Berlin and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The project will investigate the story cycle the Seven Sages of Rome , which, while once very well-known, has now been largely forgotten, even among experts in the field. Professor Jutta Eming from the Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures (Medieval German Literature and Language) at Freie Universität and Professor Bettina Bildhauer from the University of St. Andrews submitted the successful project proposal. The central focus of the project, "The Seven Sages of Rome: Editing and Reappraising a Forgotten Premodern Classic from Global and Gendered Perspectives," will trace a transcultural literary history that also encompasses aspects of gender studies. The DFG and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council will provide the researchers with approximately one million euros over a period of three years as part of a joint funding line aimed at promoting cooperative research within the humanities. The researchers will begin work on the project in early 2023.