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A1 - Takeda, Joey
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - DHUM 491: Remediating Bills of Mortality
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
ET - 6.6
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
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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.
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
DHUM491 is a directed studies course in Digital Humanities at the University of Victoria.
The Bills of Mortality were printed broadsides listing the numbers of deaths and christenings. The earliest collections of these in London date to the early 16th century; from 1625 on, they were privately printed on a press owned by the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks and specially licensed by Star Chamber. In 1662, John Graunt compiled and analyzed a collection of these documents, arguably ushering in the field of demography and population statistics. In this course, we attempt to read these bills of mortality not for numbers but for toponyms (placenames). We are interested in the following questions: How does reading the bills of mortality for place help shape our understanding of place, death, and the printing press in Early Modern London? How can we map this data? How does compiling the data in the digital environment change the nature of the documents we are remediating? And how do our digital remediation processes help us understand the nature of these broadsides and the early remediations of data gathered by women, compiled by parish clerks, printed on perhaps London’s only legal private press, and then recompiled by the first demographer?
By the end of this directed reading, Takeda will:
Note: the assignments are currently in draft. After they are proofed, they will be posted on the site.
Editing a text requires careful documentation and explication. Takeda’s edition of the Bills of Mortality, like any good critical edition, will be carefully and thoroughly documented through annotated bibliographies and critical apparatus.
There will be two encoding assignments. The first will be a chronological finding aid for the Bills of Mortality, listing all known bills (extant and lost). There is no readily accessible list of the Bills of Mortality; MoEML will publish this list for the benefit of other scholars. The second encoding assignment is to transcribe, transform, edit, and anthologize the extant Bills of Mortality. Takeda will devise new remediation tools with Excel, XSLT, and CSS. His edition will be a critically-informed remediation of the data.
Note: these primary and secondary sources will all be added to MoEML’s bibliography.
Nelson, Carolyn and Matthew Seccombe.
I have categorized the bibliography under multiple headings for convenience. Often items in these categories overlap in some way (Greenberg’s essay for example) so each essay is placed in the category most suitable.
Adams, Reginald H.
Clegg, Cyndia Susan.
Clegg, Cyndia Susan.
Plomer, Henry Robert.
Siebert, Frederick Seaton.
Bayatrizi, Zohreh.
Champion, J.A.I.
Christie, James.
Farren, Edwin James.
Greenberg, Stephen.
Harding, Vanessa.
Harding, Vanessa.
Kreager, Philip.
Maitland, William.
Munkhoff, Richelle.
Newman, Karen.
Plomer, Henry Robert.
Robertson, J.C.
Slack, Paul.
Slauter, Will.
Sullivan, Erin.
Sutherland, Ian.
Twigg, Graham.
Wilson, F. P.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin.
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star.
Burnard, Lou, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, and John Unsworth, eds.
Byrant, John.
Cummings, James.
Galey, Alan, Richard Cunningham, Brent Nelson, Ray Siemens, and The INKE Team.
Hayles, N. Katherine, and Jessica Pressman, eds.
Hayles, N. Katherine.
Jockers, Matthew L.
Moretti, Franco.
Moretti, Franco.
Tennison, Jeni.