07/07/2023

The new issue of "Das Mittelalter" is online: The ‚Seven Sages of Rome‘ as a Global Narrative Tradition

The ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ was one of the most widely distributed story matters of premodernity. It was transmitted in at least 30 languages from Arabic to Russian across Asia, Europe and the Middle and Near East from the 11th to the 19th centuries. This issue focuses on the similarities and differences between the various versions.