The Seven Sages of Rome: editing and reappraising a forgotten premodern classic from global and gendered perspectives

罗马七贤是最著名的前现代文本，没有人听说过，这个项目旨在改变这一点。从中亚到冰岛，这个故事周期用至少30种语言讲述了五个多世纪的时间，讲述了一个中世纪的#MeToo故事，讲述了一位哑巴王子和他年轻的继母在皇室宫廷中被假强奸指控，以及无法确定真相的故事。我们将从近期性别研究的角度对文本的性别政治进行重新评价。大多数版本还没有编辑，甚至还没有确定，我们将为此迈出第一步，整理和扩大关于传输的现有事实信息。我们还将编辑七贤最早的版本之一，来自多语言中心，荷兰语传统。将每一个不同的版本视为跨文化传统的一部分，而不是单一语言传统的一部分，将给中世纪和早期现代文学的研究带来新的推动力。我们的版本和版本库将免费提供给任何想要了解更多关于我们共同的跨文化历史而不是国家或“西方”历史的人。各有关国家不同学科的学者，以及中世纪和早期现代研究和性别研究的学者，将普遍受益于该项目的实践和理论基础。

The Seven Sages of Rome is the most famous premodern text of which nobody has ever heard, and this project aims to change that. This story cycle, told in at least 30 languages from Central Asia to Iceland over more than five centuries, recounts a medieval #metoo story of a fake rape accusation between a mute prince and his young stepmother at a royal court, and the impossibility of establishing the truth. We will reappraise the text's gender politics from the perspective of recent gender studies. Most of the versions have not yet been edited or even identified, and we will take a first step towards this by collating and expanding the available factual information on the transmission. We will also edit one of The Seven Sages' earliest versions from a multilingual hub, the Dutch tradition. Seeing each of the different versions as part of a transcultural rather than monolingual tradition will give new impulses to the study of medieval and early modern literature. Our edition and repertory of versions will be freely available online for anyone wanting to find out more about our shared transcultural rather than national or "Western" history. Academics from across the different national philologies concerned, as well as from medieval and early modern studies and gender studies generally will benefit from this project's practical and theoretical groundwork.