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About the Search Function

This website contains many types of texts, including:

scholarly articles written in modern Canadian English; diplomatic transcriptions of early modern texts that faithfully reproduce the inconsistent spellings typical of printed and manuscript texts from this period; site informational pages; and technical project documentation.

Although you can search the whole site ("Everything"), it will often be more efficient to select one of the document types in the drop-down list on the search page to search only a subset of the collection.

A full-text search for any word will not return instances of that word with variant spellings. For example, if you type usury into the search box, the results will not include usurie. If you want to find variant spellings of usury in the diplomatic transcriptions, try using a wild-card or fuzzy search, or try entering different search terms. See Early Modern Spelling below for information on early modern spelling.

There are two wild-card characters that can be used in searches: asterisk (*) and question mark (?). An asterisk represents zero or more characters; a question mark represents a single character. A wild-card search allows you to truncate endings, so that a search for usur* will return results that include usury, usurie, and usurer. The wild card can also be used within a word to return all possible variations in that position. For example, a search for g*ld would return gold, gould, and gowld. Combining internal and terminal wild cards would return more variants. For example, g?ld* would yield results that include golden, goldsmith, and some variant spellings thereon. You can also use a wildcard search to handle words which may contain long s (ſ) instead of the regular s. Please note that when wildcards are used at the beginning of a word, the search may take a long time to complete.

Another strategy is to use a fuzzy search. This will find matches which are similar to the word you have entered. To do a fuzzy search, add the tilde character (~) to the end of the word. For example, a search for abchurch~ will retrieve variants such as Vpchurch and Apechurch. It will also retrieve church, since that is also similar to abchurch, so fuzzy searching can be less specific than wild-card searching, but it does provide more flexibility when a word is subject to variation, and it can help to identify spelling variants. Fuzzy searching uses Levenshtein Distance to measure similarity, and the level of similarity can be defined by appending a number between 0 and 1 after the tilde. For instance, shoreditch~0.5 will retrieve a range of variants including scoreditch and sewersditch; if you decrease it to 0.4, words such as wherewith and houndsditch will be included. The default value for fuzzy searching is 0.5. Fuzzy searching is also slow compared with a simple word search.

When searching for placenames which may have variant spellings, the simplest approach is to search for the modern canonical name first; if there is an entry in the encyclopedia for the place, you can visit that page to see a list of all the variant spellings occurring in the collection, with links to the documents containing them.

Searches are not case-sensitive.

Early Modern Spelling

To cover the maximum number of variant spellings in a full-text search, keep in mind the following peculiarities of early modern typography:

i and j were interchangeable. If you were looking for the word journey, you might try iourney as well. You could also use a wildcard: ?ourney. u and v were interchangeable. If you were looking for the word usury, you might try vsvry, vsury, and usvry as well. w was often spelled using a double v, especially in the upper case. If you were looking for water, you might try vvater as well.

Renaissance orthography (spelling) was not standardized. Here are a few tips:

Try replacing i with y. For example, search for both ivy and yvy. Try adding a terminal e. For example, search for both gold and golde. Try replacing -y endings with -ie and -ye. For example, search for lady, ladie, and ladye. Try replacing -ed endings with -’d. For example, search for both placed and plac’d. Try doubling consonants and adding an e. For example, search for both dog and dogge. Vowels can be spelled in multiple ways. For example, gold can also be spelled gould and gowld. Alternatively, a wild-card search is possible (see above). For example, lad* would return all possible endings, and g?ld would return all vowel variations.

For more information about early modern orthography, we recommend Carl B. Smith and Eugene W. Reade’s Word History: A Guide to Understanding the English Language. See especially the section titled Orthography and Printing in Shakespeare’s Day.

Participants Cameron Butt Cameron Butt CB

Encoder, research assistant, and copy editor, 2012–13. Cameron completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.

 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.

 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.

 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.