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Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon which the Roman city of Londinium was built.

Melanie Chernyk Melanie Chernyk MJC

Research assistant, 2004–08; BA honours, 2006; MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Ms. Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

 Catriona Duncan Catriona Duncan CD

Research assistant, 2014 to present. Catriona is an MA candidate at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests include medieval and early modern Literature with a focus on book history, spatial humanities, and technology.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad, associate professor in the department of English at the University of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London. She is also the assistant coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Her articles have appeared in the 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 Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She is currently working on an edition of The Merchant of Venice for ISE and Broadview P. She lectures regularly on London studies, digital humanities, and on Shakespeare in performance.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Research assistant, 2013-15, and data manager, 2015 to present. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

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.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present; Junior Programmer, 2015 to 2017; Research Assistant, 2014 to 2017. Joey Takeda is an MA 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 include diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Stewart Arneil Stewart Arneil

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

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.

 Thomas Dekker Thomas Dekker 1572/73 1632/33

Playwright, poet, and author.

BAE ODNB Wikipedia Ben Jonson Ben Jonson 1572/73 1637/38

Poet and playwright.

ODNB Wikipedia John Lydgate John Lydgate 1370/71 1449/50-1451/52

Poet and monk of Bury.

BAE ODNB Wikipedia Born digital. Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open. Sheppard, Francis. London: A History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. Sugden, Edward. A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1925. Open. Internet Archive. Newton, Greg, dev. Vertexer: Mercator Vertex Generator. University of Victoria. Open. [This tool was developed by Greg Newton, programmer, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University of Victoria in 2014. For instructions on how to use this tool, see MoEML’s documentation for encoding GIS coordinates of locations.] St. Andrew Undershaft

St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of John Stow.

(STAN8.xml) Threadneedle Street

Threadneedle Street ran east-west from Bishopsgate Street to Cornhill and the Stocks Market. It passed the north end of the Royal Exchange and was entirely in Broad Street Ward. Threadneedle Street, also called Three Needle Street, is clearly visible on the Agas map. It was apparently very well known for its taverns.

(THRE1.xml) Poultry Information is not yet available. (POUL1.xml) Royal Exchange Information is not yet available. (ROYA1.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) Ludgate Information is not yet available. (LUDG1.xml) Walbrook Street Information is not yet available. (WALB1.xml) Leadenhall Street

Leadenhall Street ran east-west from Cornhill Street to Aldgate Street. All three form part of the same road from Aldgate to Cheapside (Weinreb and Hibbert 462). The street acquired its name from Leadenhall, a onetime house and later a market. The building was reportedly famous for having a leaden roof (Bebbington 197).

(LEAD2.xml) Lime Street

Lime Street is a street that ran north-south from Leadenhall Street in the north to Fenchurch Street in the south. It was west of St. Andrew Undershaft and east of Leadenhall. It appears that the street was so named because people made or sold Lime there (Stow; BHO). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).

(LIME2.xml)

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Cornhill Cornhill

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Cornhill was part of the city’s main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street , and of the topography of the site upon which the Roman city of Londinium was built. Cornhill was the original corn market of London and was the only one allowed to operate after noon (Sugden 131). The Romans constructed their fortress on the north side of the Thames because the natural topography boasted two hills rising to the two extensive plateaux later named Ludgate Hill and Cornhill (Sheppard 21) whereas the south side of the Thames consisted of the marshy mudflats typical of a tidal river. Ludgate Hill and Cornhill were bisected by the Walbrook River. Harben writes that [i]n early times, and so late as the 16th century, Cornhill seems to have extended further east and to have included part of Leadenhall Street to Lime Street to St. Andrew Undershaft (Harben; BHO).

Cornhill also held much literary importance. Sugden writes that Cornhill is mentioned in numerous texts, citing texts as early as Piers Plowman (Ich wonede on Cornehulle [...]) and John Lydgate’s poem London Lickpenny (Then into Corn-hyl anon I rode [...]). Sugden also lists Jonson’s The Staple of News, The Devil is an Ass and Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday.Excerpts from Jonson’s and Dekker’s text can be found in MoEML’s Library.

Cornhill still exists in modern London.