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4 December 2015

MoEML Announces the Publication of Tye Landels’s Georeferencing the Early Modern London Book Trade: 1. Theory without Practice

English Short Title Catalgoue Home Page. Image courtesy of English Short Title Catalogue.
English Short Title Catalgoue Home Page. Image courtesy of English Short Title Catalogue.
It is high time that programmers, encoders, print historians, and geographers collaborate to develop a database (or series of databases) that geocode(s) the information that already exists in online resources such as the STC and BBTI. So writes Tye Landels in his second post, Theory without Practice in the series for MoEML Georeferencing the Early Modern Book Trade. In this post, Landels argues that despite the growing interest in early modern studies with the geography of the book, geographical information in bibliographic data sets remain relatively unstudied by scholars. Landels offers a rich description of this burgeoning field, deftly argues for the need to harvest such geographical data, and posits that an interdisciplinary approach is needed to fully explore questions related to the geography of the early modern book trade. With this post, Landels lays the foundations for his next two installments, which will theorize and suggest a template for a dynamic and searchable database of geographical information in early modern books.