Release Notes for MoEML v.6.4
¶Second Static Release
v.6.4 is our second release of a static version of our site. With this June 2020 release,
we are making available two years of progress, including many new encyclopedia entries.
¶Goodbye News; Hello Release Notes
Having moved to the more sustainable and archivable static release model, MoEML no
longer has the capacity to make news items or blog posts available on a rolling basis.
News items and blog posts from 2018 and earlier will continue to be available on the
site, but announcements are now made exclusively on social media. Follow MoEML on
Facebook and/or Twitter for news. All release notes are available at the Release Notes landing page (About/Project Evolution/Release Notes in our new menu structure).
¶Walking Texts
Progress
MoEML is currently preparing SSHRC-funded editions of all the early modern mayoral
shows and of the four texts of John Stow’s Survey of London. The entire five-year project is called Walking Texts in Early Modern London (see the project summary).
¶Progress on the MoEML Anthology of Mayoral Shows
The anthology of old-spelling transcription of pageant books is now nearly complete. Most have been published; others are available in draft pending
a final proofreading. In the project plan, we projected a 2023 completion date. The early completion of this anthology, thanks
to an encoding push by the MoEML team in Summer 2019, means that scholars now have
access to highly accurate, carefully checked transcriptions of these texts, with links
to digital surrogates, full tagging of bibliographical features of the book, and light
tagging of entities (names, dates, and toponyms). The transcriptions will help the
editors now working to modernize, introduce, contextualize, annotate, and collate
the texts. Mark Kaethler, MoEML’s Assistant Director, is taking the lead on the modern editions. He and Janelle Jenstad co-wrote the Editorial Guidelines last summer. The team has been working to obtain
high-resolution open-access scans of the pageant books, to minimize our dependence
on EEBO’s legendarily problematic scans of microfilms. You can read more about the
project in the chapter that Mark and Janelle contributed to Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London, edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen.
¶Progress on Stow’s Survey
With the Fall 2019 acquisition of a fine copy of the 1598 Survey by the University of Victoria Libraries, we now have a complete set of the four editions.
Dr. Gordon Fulton in the English Department at UVic found the copy and facilitated the purchase, the
cost of which was shared jointly by Dr. Fulton, MoEML’s SSHRC grant, and the UVic Libraries (see
Rare Books and Rare Generosity: An interview with Gordon Fulton). The Digitization Unit at UVic Libraries has scanned the entire volume for MoEML, as it has done for the 1603, 1618, and 1633 volumes. 1633 scans are available through the content management system and via marginal links in our slowly growing edition.
We’ve encoded 65 more chapters of the 1598 and 1633 surveys, adding entity tags for
all dates, people, and locations. In the process of encoding 1633, we’ve made corrections
to parallel passages in 1598 and added thousands of new entities to our databases.
¶New Resource: The Regnal Calendar
Dates in early modern texts are frequently given by the year of the reigning monarch.
In theory, this dating system is straightforward. In practice, converting the regnal
year to a span of dates is impossible because there’s no consensus on when regnal
years begin and end.
For our own internal use at MoEML, we created a table of regnal dates from William
I’s conquest of England to the execution of Charles I in 1649. The table lists the
beginning and end points of each regnal year as given by C.R. Cheney in A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History, the 1577 and 1587 editions of Holinshed’s Chronicles, and the 1598 edition of Stow’s Survey, where those sources consider a monarch to have reigned. (Holinshed and Stow do not
list the brief reign of Lady Jane Grey, for example.) We then gave each regnal year
an
@xml:id
. The first year of Elizabeth’s reign is thus r_ELIZ1_01. This system means that MoEML
can tag regnal dates in primary sources without having to determine what the author
considered to be the beginning and end of the regnal year. Our tagging points users
to the regnal calendar, where some of the calendrical variation is captured.Such a table will have value beyond the workstations of the MoEML team at UVic. We
therefore share it with our users. Feedback is always welcome!
We have a number of other finding aids and resources in draft. Some may prove useful
to other scholars even in their draft state. You’ll find a complete list of such resources on this page.
¶New Content; New Contributors
New contributions from students include:
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A full-length article on
Moorfields
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A short article on
The Elephant
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A full-length article on
St. Paul’s Churchyard
by Sarah-Jayne Ainsworth, working under the guest editorship of Briony Frost at Exeter University.
New location stubs added by MoEML team members and being published with v.6.4 include:
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Cow Face (a market)
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The Castle (in Cornhill)
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The Barge (in Cheapside)
In addition, we have welcomed 62 new contributors whose contributions are at various
point in the editorial and encoding workflow.
¶Changes to Location Ontology
Over time, the original category of
Siteshas been refined and subdivided. With this release, MoEML has made the following changes:
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We have ADDED the new category of
Inns of Court,
to which Middle Temple and other law schools belong.
¶New Partnerships
¶Pedagogical Partnerships News
MoEML has partnered with two new pedagogical partners. Una McIlvenna at Melbourne University undertook a MoEML module on Newgate Prison. Joyce Boro at the Université de Montréal and her ANG6470 class encoded Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderful Year.
¶The London Parish Project
Under the direction of Christopher Highley of Ohio State University, the London Parish Project will produce entries for all of the parishes in London. Dr. Highley is assembling
an impressive team of experts to write these encyclopedia entries. Parishes were the
heart of London communal life, and we will learn about London social networks from
this project.
¶Browsing the Bookstalls of St. Paul’s
Erica Zimmer of MIT has undertaken a major project on the bookstalls of St. Paul’s churchyard. The project will map and track the names, locations, and ownership of bookstalls
over time. The first stage of the project entailed adding dozens of bookshops to the MoEML placeography. Given the literary nature of MoEML, this wealth of information
is particularly valuable.
¶Statistics
To see a complete list of statistics, go to Statistics.
We added:
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2572 new toponymic variants to the Gazetteer
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151 new locations to the Placeography, including 63 bookshops added by Erica Zimmer
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1594 new historical people to the Persography
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205 new bibliography entries to the Bibliography
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75 new organizations to the Orgography
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12 new entries to the Glossary
¶New Resources and Tools
¶Submit an Agas Correction or Edition
The MoEML Agas map now has a new feature that gives users a direct means of submitting corrections.
We’ve added a button (✉) at the end of the Agas map menu bar (top far right). Upon clicking, the button launches your e-mail client application
in a new window, with a template that will send to london@uvic.ca; it provides you with a list of information that you need to fill out, as well as
necessary guidelines.
¶Interface Changes
¶News of Team Members
Since the release of v.6.3 in June 2018, MoEML’s team has said farewell to a number
of members and has welcomed new members. Amorena Roberts ended her long tenure with MoEML in the summer of 2018. Brooke Isherwood, Carly Cumpstone, and Chase Templet finished their Library-funded work on the Gazetteer in August 2018. Chase stayed on with MoEML to work on the mayoral shows, leading Chris Horne, Lucas Simpson, and Kate LeBere who worked full-time on the pageant books in Summer 2019. We finished our work on
the old-spelling transcriptions of the pageant books just as Chase defended his MA essay on the Parnassus plays in August 2019.
Chris Horne and Lucas Simpson recently defended their honours theses in English and Kate LeBere recently defended her honours thesis in History. Chris and Kate were then poached by Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) to spend the winter working on remediations of early modern plays. Lucas won a JCURA award to work on converting the gazetteer data into RDF triples for ingestion
into the LINCS triplestore.
In January 2020, the team welcomed Ryann McQuarrie-Salik as Project Manager. After switching to remote work in April 2020, the team welcomed
a group of new research assistants: Jamie Zabel, Nicole Vatcher, Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar, and Molly Rothwell. These research assistants have been integral to the progress of the 1598 and 1633
editions of Survey of London.
References
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Citation
Cheney, C.R., ed. A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History. Ed. Michael Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar
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Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.Roles played in the project
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Molly Rothwell
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Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey, adding toponyms to MoEML’s Gazetteer, researching England’s early-modern court system, and standardizing MoEML’s Mapography.Roles played in the project
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Jamie Zabel
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Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel was an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication Moveable Type (2020) and presented at the University of Victoria’s 2021 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. During her time at MoEML, she made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey as proofreader, editor, and encoder, coordinated the encoding of the 1633 edition, and researched and authored a number of encyclopedia articles and geo-coordinates to supplement both editions. She also played a key role in managing the correction process of MoEML’s Gazetteer.Roles played in the project
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Nicole Vatcher
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Project Manager, 2021-2022.Technical Documentation Writer, 2020-2021. Nicole Vatcher was an honours student in the Department of English and minored in Professional Communication at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include women’s writing in the modernist period.Roles played in the project
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Lucas Simpson
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Research Assistant, 2018-2021. Lucas Simpson was a student at the University of Victoria.Roles played in the project
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Chris Horne
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Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Kate LeBere
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Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual andquickstart
guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.Roles played in the project
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Tracey El Hajj
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Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course onArtificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.
Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.Roles played in the project
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Carly Cumpstone
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Research Assistant, 2018. Carly was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included early modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She had a special interest in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage violence.Roles played in the project
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Chase Templet
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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.Roles played in the project
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Brooke Isherwood
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Research Assistant, 2016-2018. Brooke Isherwood was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern Literature. She had a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works from the Renaissance.Roles played in the project
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Amorena Roberts
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Research Assistant, 2016, 2018. Student contributor enrolled in English 362: Popular Literature in the Renaissance at the University of Victoria in Spring 2016, working under the guest editorship of Janelle Jenstad.Roles played in the project
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Mark Kaethler
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Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; and early modern drama.Roles played in the project
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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).Roles played in the project
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Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print. -
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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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. -
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The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.The Gouldesmythes Storehowse
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
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Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
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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. -
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
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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.
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Mary Erica Zimmer
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Dr. Erica Zimmer is a Lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concourse Program and teaches in MIT’s Digital Humanities Lab. Previously, she worked with Global Shakespeares: The Merchant Module as a Research Associate in MIT’s Literature Section and taught in the English Department at Louisiana State University. She received her PhD from The Editorial Institute at Boston University and participated in the first and second Early Modern Digital Agendas courses at the Folger Institute in 2013 and 2015, where she developed a project on early modern bookshops in St. Paul’s Churchyard. Her project will become the first MoEMLmicrosite,
Browsing the Bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard.Roles played in the project
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Gordon Fulton
Gordon Fulton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria.Gordon Fulton is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tanya Schmidt
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Tanya Schmidt is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at New York University. Her research interests include early modern epic and classical reception, Anglo-Italian literary exchange, and early modern literature and science.Roles played in the project
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Jean Howard
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Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte professor in the humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Author of several books, including The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories, co-written with Phyllis Rackin, and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642. She is also an editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare. She has published articles on Caryl Churchill and Tony Kushner and is completing a new book on the history play in twentieth and twentieth-first century American and English theater.Roles played in the project
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J. Caitlin Finlayson
Caitlin Finlayson
J. Caitlin Finlayson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research focuses on Thomas Heywood, print culture, the socio-political and aesthetic aspects of Early Modern pageantry and entertainments, and adaptations of Shakespeare. She has published on the London Lord Mayor’s Shows and recently edited mayoral shows by John Squire and by John Taylor for the Malone Society’s Collections series (2015). She is presently editing (with Amrita Sen) a collection on Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London for Taylor&Francis.Roles played in the project
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Christopher Highley
Chris Highley is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He grew up near Manchester in the north of England. After studying English at the University of Sussex, he earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and Stanford University (1991) respectively. He specializes in Early Modern literature, culture, and history. He is the author of Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Henry VIII and his Afterlives (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is currently working on two unrelated projects: the posthumous image of Henry VIII, and the history of the Blackfriars neighborhood in early modern London.Roles played in the project
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Joyce Boro
Joyce Boro is Professor of English literature at Université de Montréal, Canada. She is the editor of Lord Berners’ Castell of Love (MRTS 2007), Margaret Tyler’s Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood (MHRA 2014), and author of articles and essays on Anglo-Spanish literary relations, translation, transnational adaptation, romance, drama, and book history.Joyce Boro is mentioned in the following documents:
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Briony Frost
Briony Frost is an Education and Scholarship Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. Her teaching and research fields include: Renaissance literature, especially drama; Elizabethan and Jacobean succession literature; witchcraft; publics; memory and forgetting; and soundscapes. Her M.A. Renaissance Literature class (Country, City and Court: Renaissance Literature, 1558-1618) will prepare encyclopedia entries on many of the sites (numbered 1-12) on The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage.Roles played in the project
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Ian MacInnes
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Ian MacInnes (B.A. Swarthmore College, Ph.D. University of Virginia) is the director of pedagogical partnerships (US) for MoEML. He is Professor of English at Albion College, Michigan, where he teaches Elizabethan literature, Shakespeare, and Milton. His scholarship focuses on representations of animals and the environment in Renaissance literature, particularly in Shakespeare. He has published essays on topics such as horse breeding and geohumoralism in Henry V and on invertebrate bodies in Hamlet. He is particularly interested in teaching methods that rely on students’ curiosity and sense of play.Click here for Ian MacInnes’ Albion College profile.Roles played in the project
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Una McIlvenna
Una McIlvenna is Hansen Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches courses on crime, punishment, and media in early modern Europe, and on the history of sexualities. She has held positions as Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Kent. From 2011-2014 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Research Council’s Centre for the History of Emotions, based at the University of Sydney, where she began her ongoing project investigating emotional responses to the use of songs and verse in accounts of crime and public execution across Europe. She has published articles on execution ballads in Past & Present, Media History, and Huntington Library Quarterly, and is currently working on a monograph entitled Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1550-1900. She also works on early modern court studies, and is the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (Routledge, 2016).Roles played in the project
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Amy Tigner
Amy Tigner is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington, and the Editor-in-Chief of Early Modern Studies Journal. She is the author of Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise (Ashgate, 2012) and has published in ELR, Modern Drama, Milton Quarterly, Drama Criticism, Gastronomica and Early Theatre. Currently, she is working on two book projects: co-editing, with David Goldstein, Culinary Shakespeare, and co-authoring, with Allison Carruth, Literature and Food Studies.Roles played in the project
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Sarah-Jayne Ainsworth
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Student contributor enrolled in English 124: Country, City and Court: Renaissance Literature, 1558-1618 at University of Exeter (Exon.) in Fall 2014, working under the guest editorship of Briony Frost.Roles played in the project
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Caitlin Smith
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Student contributor enrolled in English 5308: Shakespeare and Early Modern Urban/Rural Nature at the University of Texas, Arlington in Fall 2014, working under the guest editorship of Amy Tigner.Roles played in the project
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Kate Casebeer
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Student contributor at Albion College in Spring 2015, working under the guest editorship of Ian MacInnes.Roles played in the project
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Emily Allison
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Locations
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Moorfields
A low-lying marshy area just northeast of Moorgate and on the way to the Curtain, Moorfields was home to a surprising range of activities and accompanying cultural associations in early modern London. Beggars and the mentally ill patients of neighbouring Bethlehem Hospital often frequented the area. Some used the public space to bleach and dry linen, and the Honorable Artillery Company also used it as an official training ground. Moorfields was even a popular suburban destination for ice skating when its water froze during the winter. Moorfields was generallyfull of noysome waters
(Stow 2:77) until 1605–1607, when it was successfully drained, levelled, and beautified with tree-lined pedestrian pathways. At this point, it transformed into a fashionable place for the genteel to see and to be seen. The history of Moorfields provides insight into social, political, environmental, and medical issues in early modern London.Moorfields is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Elephant is mentioned in the following documents:
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Finsbury Field
Finsbury Field is located in northen London outside the London Wall. Note that MoEML correctly locates Finsbury Field, which the label on the Agas map confuses with Mallow Field (Prockter 40). Located nearby is Finsbury Court. Finsbury Field is outside of the city wards within the borough of Islington (Mills 81).Finsbury Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bridewell
Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the City of London in 1553, when it was converted to function as an orphanage and house of correction. Bridewell is located on the Agas map at the corner of the Thames and Fleet Ditch, labelled asBride Well.
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St. Paul’s Churchyard
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).St. Paul’s Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter upon Cornhill
St. Peter upon Cornhill stood at the highest point of the city in the south east of Cornhill Ward. According to a tablet preserved within the church, St. Peter upon Cornhill was founded by King Lucius and was the first Christian church in London (Noorthouk 606). This information was questioned by Stow, who admitted that he knowsnot by what authority
(Stow 1:194) the tablet was written.St. Peter upon Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Swan Alley (Cornhill)
Swan Alley was a north-south alley that bordered Cornhill Ward’s north side and Broad Street Ward’s south end. It opened into Cornhill Ward and therefore was included within Cornhill Ward’s limits.Swan Alley (Cornhill) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cow Face
Cow Face, commonly referred to asThe Cow Face,
was located in Cheap Ward to the west of St. Laurence Lane. Carlin and Belcher summarize the history of the location in noting that[t]anners sold hides in this seld until 1400, after which they moved elsewhere, but leather goods such as gloves continued to be sold in it
(Carlin and Belcher 71).Cow Face is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pope’s Head Alley
Pope’s Head Alley ran south from Cornhill to Lombard Street, and was named for the Pope’s Head Tavern that stood at its northern end. Although it does not appear on the Agas Map, its approximate location can be surmised since all three streets still exist. Although Stow himself does not discuss Pope’s Head Alley directly, his book wasImprinted by Iohn Wolfe, Printer to the honorable Citie of London: And are to be ſold at his ſhop within the Popes head Alley in Lombard ſtreet. 1598
(Stow 1598, sig. A1r). Booksellers proliferated the alley in the early years of the seventeenth century (Sugden 418).Pope’s Head Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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Dudley’s House
Dudley’s House was located just north of Candlewick Street, before it meets Walbrook Street. According to Stow, the house belonged to Edmond Dudley during the reign of King Henry VII (Stow 1:224).Dudley’s House is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Peter’s College Rents
St. Peter’s College Rents were located on the west side of St. Paul’s Cathedral, next to the Atrium and northwest of the Stationers’ Hall. The building was, as Carlin and Belcher note,founded by 1318 to house St. Paul’s chantry priests
(Carlin and Belcher 92).St. Peter’s College Rents is mentioned in the following documents:
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Grantam Lane
Running parallel to Dowgate Street, Grantam Lane spanned north to south from Thames Street to the Thames. Stow notes a prominent brewery in the lane (Stow 1598, sig. N4r). By 1677, it came to be known asBrewer’s Lane
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Atrium (St. Paul’s)
The Atrium near St. Paul’s Cathedral was located on the west side of the cathedral, adjacent to St. Peter’s College Rents and the Stationers’ Hall.Atrium (St. Paul’s) is mentioned in the following documents:
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King’s Wardrobe
The King’s Wardrobe, built in the fourteenth century between St. Andrew’s Hill and Addle Hill near Blackfriars Precinct, was originally a repository for royal clothing, but later housed offices of the royal household and became a key seat of government (Sugden 557). Stow explains its significance:In this houſe of late yeares, is lodged Sir Iohn Forteſcue, knight, Maiſter of the Wardrobe, Chancellor and vnder Treaſu
rer of the Exchequer, and one of her Maieſties Priuy Councel. The ſecret letters & writings touching the eſtate of the realme, were wont to be introlled in the kings Wardrobe, and not in the Chauncery, as appeareth by the Records. (Stow 1598, sig. U6r)King’s Wardrobe is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Castle
The Castle was a large stone house in Cornhill ward, located on the north side of Cornhill at the western side of the Royal Exchange. Part of it was removed for the expansion of the Royal Exchange in 1566, and is mentioned by Stow as being named for the Castle Tavern sign.The Castle is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Barge
The Barge was a tenement building located in Cheap Ward. The structure was the remains of a medieval manor house.The Barge is mentioned in the following documents:
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Henry VII’s Chapel
One of the most opulent sites in early modern London, Henry VII’s Chapel still stands in the eastern wing of Westminster Abbey. The structure was initially intended to monumentalize Henry VI, who was never actually canonized (Condon 60). The Henry VII Lady Chapel is the resting place of Henry VII himself and his wife, Elizabeth of York. Additionally, it houses the tombs of Anne of Cleves; Edward VI; Mary I; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; Anne of Denmark; James VI and I; and other key figures of the English Royalty (Weinreb 1007).Henry VII’s Chapel is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cokedon Hall
Little is known about Cokedon Hall, but Carlin and Belcher note that it was in existence around 1316 (Carlin and Belcher 69). Stow records the location of the site in noting that the hall wassometime at the South west end of Marte lane I reade of
(Stow 1:132).Cokedon Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Compter (Bread Street)
Stow mentions two compters existing in his time: The Compter (Poultry) and The Compter (Bread Street). With relevance to the mobility of the place, Harben records that theWood Street Counter had been removed there from Bread Street in 1555
(Harben 166). Tracing its history back ever further, Carlin and Belcher note that the prison was initially located in the Broken Seld around 1412 (Carlin and Belcher 70).The Compter (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Compter Alley
Initially named for its proximity to the Poultry Compter, Compter Alley is now Chapel Place (Poultry) (Ekwall 172). Directly south of the Grocers’ Hall, the alley ran from the Poultry Compter to Poultry.Compter Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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Deep Ditch
Running north-to-south, Deep Ditch was the boundary between the Moorfields and Bethlehem Hospital. Henry Harben describes the history of the site as follows:In Agas’ map a stream is shown here flowing into the City Ditch, which may be the remains of the Walbrook, the bed of which has been found under Blomfield Street, and might be referred to by Stow at that time as a ditch Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. ()[…] It had been filled up in this part of its course, and had disappeared by 1658 Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. ()[…] (Harben 195)
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Almshouses (Wood Street)
The Almshouses of Wood Street were located on the east side of the street, south of Bowyers’ Hall. Carlin and Belcher note that the almshouses were built in 1416by request to the Skinners’ Company of mayor Henry Barton
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Ratten Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Dark Lane
Dark lane was a small street that was located just north of Queenhithe and was connected to Timberhithe Street.Dark Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Swan Alley (Coleman Street)
There were a number of alleys namedSwan Alley
in early modern London. This Swan Alley ran east off Coleman Street, just south of the Armourers’ Hall. Various legal proceedings suggest that the alley bordered gardens and led to the properties of relatively affluent citizens (see links below to records transcribed in BHO). Harben notes that by 1799 the alley was known asGreat Swan Alley
at the west end andLittle Swan Alley
at the east end (Harben 564; BHO).Swan Alley (Coleman Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Coldharbour Lane
Coldharbour Lane, or Colderherburghlane, ran south from Thames Street to Coldharbour on the east side of All Hallows the Less (A Map of Tudor London, 1520).Coldharbour Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Deanery (St. Paul’s)
The Deanery at St. Paul’s Cathedral served as the residence for the dean of the cathedral from 1145 onward, eventually being reconstructed after its destruction in the Great Fire of London. In offering a reconstruction of the site based on the paintings in John Donne’s will, Schofield states thatin 1522 the deanery contained a hall, parlour, six chambers, two garrets, a chapel and ten feather beds
(Schofield 153).The Deanery (St. Paul’s) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Middle Temple Hall
Within the Middle Temple complex on the west side of Middle Temple Lane.Middle Temple Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Middle Temple
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of CourtMiddle Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
Organizations
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Université de Montréal Études anglaises 6470 Spring 2020 Students
Student contributors enrolled in Études anglaises 470: Text to Hypertext at Université de Montréal in Spring 2020, working under the guest editorship of Joyce Boro.Student Contributors
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