Deſcenſus Aſtrææ.Horizontal RuleTHE DEVICE of a Pageant, borne beforeM.
William Web, Lord Maior of the Citie
of London on the day he tooke
his oath, beeing the
29. of
October. 1591.
Wherevnto is annexed A Speech deliuered by one clad like
a Sea Nymph, who preſented a Pineſſe on the water braue ly rigd and mand, to the Lord Maior, at the time he tooke Barge to go to Weſtminſter.
WiThis text has been supplied. Reason: Type not (sufficiently) inked. Evidence: The
text has been supplied based on evidence internal to this text (context, etc.). (SM)th golden hands doth ſtrengthen and enrich
In the hinder part of the Pageant did ſit
a Child, repreſen ting Nature, holding in her hand a diſtaffe, & ſpin- ning a
Web, which paſſed through the hand of Fortune and was wheeled vp by Time, who ſpake as followeth
Peele, George. Decensus Astraeae. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 15 Sep. 2020, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DECE1.htm. Draft.
Chicago citation
Peele, George. Decensus Astraeae.The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed September 15, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DECE1.htm. Draft.
APA citation
Peele, G. 2020. Decensus Astraeae. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/DECE1.htm. Draft.
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Project Manager, 2020-present. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant,
2018-present. Kate LeBere completed an honours BA in History with a minor in English
at the
University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published in The
Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference
(2019) and Qualicum History Conference (2020). While her primary research focus was
sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she developed a keen interest in Old English
and
Early Middle English translation and completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during
the Russian Cultural Revolution.
Junior Programmer, 2018-present. Tracey is a PhD candidate in the English Department
at
the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on Critical Technical Practice, more
specifically Algorhythmics. She is interested in how technologies communicate without
humans, affecting social and cultural environments in complex ways.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017.
Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department
of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in
English
(with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary
research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature,
critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University
of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.
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Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate
honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of
Victoria
in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked
as a
musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage
of
sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.
Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student
at the
University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts,
urban
agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the
director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden
magazine.
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Research Assistant, 2012-2014. MoEML Research Affiliate. Sarah Milligan completed
her MA
at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett
Browning’s
Sonnets from the Portuguese. She has also worked with the Internet Shakespeare
Editions and with Dr.
Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network, compiling an index of Victorian periodical
poetry.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present.
Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander
comes
to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge
digital humanities project at the University of
Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union
catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the
curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare
Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on
paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor.
She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts,
and is
interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these
materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler,
Kim
has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able
to bring
her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
Mark Kaethler, full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, Alberta),
is
the assistant project director of mayoral shows for the Map of Early Modern
London (MoEML). Mark received his PhD from the University of Guelph in 2016; his
dissertation focused on Jacobean politics and irony in the works of Thomas Middleton,
including Middleton’s mayoral show The Triumphs of Truth. His work
on politics and civic pageantry has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Upstart and This Rough Magic, and he is currently
finishing work on Thomas Dekker’s lord mayor’s show London’s Tempe
for MoEML. He is the co-editor with Janelle Jenstad and
Jennifer Roberts-Smith of a forthcoming volume of essays entitled Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2017)
and is co-authoring a piece on creating the digital anthology of mayoral shows with
Jenstad for a forthcoming collection of essays on early modern civic
pageantry. The mayoral shows project affords Mark the opportunity to share his research
skills in governance, civic communities, urban navigation, bibliographical studies,
and the
digital humanities with MoEML.
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer
Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of
Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A
Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If
You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and
Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,
Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan
Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance
Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book
chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early
Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage,
The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre
Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching
Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity
in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the
Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early
Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern
English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names:
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making
Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking
Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
(Routledge, 2018).
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Jenstad, Janelle. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth
Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145.
Jenstad, Janelle. The
Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.The
Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L.
Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202.
Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s
Shop.Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
Jenstad, Janelle. The Gouldesmythes Storehowse: Early Evidence for
Specialisation.The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.
Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil
Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
Jenstad, Janelle. Public
Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed.
Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Smock
Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine
Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Using
Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed.
Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah
Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF
LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description
of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an
Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the
greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ &
nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the
second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and
the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed. Web.
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC).
Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database
implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the
project
and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant
on
MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Early English Books Online–Text Creation
Partnership
The EEBO-TCP is a partnership
with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate,
fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early
English Books Online Database.Website.
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