Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London! Author2014-06-20 Kim McLean-Fiander Author2014-06-20 Janelle Jenstad Encoder2014-06-20 Kim McLean-Fiander Copy Editor2014-06-20 Janelle Jenstad Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - McLean-Fiander, Kim A1 - Jenstad, Janelle ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London! T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/BLOG8.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/BLOG8.xml ER - McLean-Fiander, Kim, and Janelle Jenstad. Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London! The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/BLOG8.htm. McLean-Fiander, Kim, and Janelle Jenstad. Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London! The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/BLOG8.htm. McLean-Fiander, K., & Jenstad, J. 2022. Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London! In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/BLOG8.htm. Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

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.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. 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, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. 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.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

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).

 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.

 John Stow John Stow 1524/25-1525/26 1605/06

Historian and author of A Survey of London. Husband of Elizabeth Stow.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Born digital. Gutter Lane

Gutter Lane ran north-south from Cheapside to Maiden Lane (Wood Street). It is to the west of Wood Street and to the east of Foster Lane, lying within the north-eastern most area of Farringdon Ward Within and serving as a boundary to Aldersgate ward. It is labelled as Goutter Lane on the Agas map.

(GUTT1.xml) Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.

(CHEA2.xml)

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The MoEML Gazetteer

We are very excited to announce the launch of the MoEML Gazetteer of Early Modern London, conceived by Project Director, Janelle Jenstad, and Programmer, Martin Holmes. To the best of our knowledge, until now there has been no authority list for placenames in early modern London. So, after years of researching and tagging London toponyms (i.e., placenames) from a wide range of texts, including John Stow’s Survey of London, poetry, prose, and the lord mayor’s shows, we have accumulated a vast amount of data, and have repurposed it to share it with others in the form of an easy-to-use gazetteer. With links directly to MoEML’s Encyclopedia, our digital gazetteer is also effectively a descriptive gazetteer.

The MoEML gazetteer will be helpful in any number of ways to researchers, editors, scholars of onomastics (the study of the origin of proper names), and projects working with geographical data. Most importantly, it provides both a single authority name and single XML:id for a particular placename, and aggregates all of that placename’s variants, including both variant spellings and alternate names. Further details about the gazetteer and how to use it are available here.

If, for example, you come across a placename called Guthurouns lane in your research, you can click on the letter G in the alphabetical index at the top of the MoEML gazetteer and search (using CTRL + F) on the page for your particular spelling. You will find an entry for your spelling variant that offers you the following six components of information: 1) The Toponym Variant (i.e., the spelling variant for which you are searching); 2) the Authority Name (i.e., the modern-spelling standardized name); 3) the MoEML XML:id (i.e., a unique XML:id assigned to that place by MoEML); 4) the Agas Map coordinates (i.e., where that place is located on the Agas map); 5) All Variants (i.e., all alternate names and variant spellings for that place aggregated from across the entire MoEML project); and 6) the Location Category (i.e., whether the place is a street, site, church, hall, playhouse, tavern, etc.). You will discover, for instance, that the authority name for Guthurouns lane is actually Gutter Lane, that the unique MoEML XML:id is GUTT1, that it is a street, and that it is located on tile B5 of our Agas map. You will also be able to see all the variant spellings (in this case ten) for that particular placename.

Toponym Variant: Guthurouns lane, Authority Name: Gutter Lane

If, during your own research, you encounter a variant for an early modern London placename that we have not yet included in the gazetteer, email us, and we’ll add it. The more name variants the gazetteer includes — whether variant spellings or alternate names — the more useful it will be as a scholarly tool.

We hope that researchers and other projects will consider adopting MoEML’s authority names and authority XML:ids, as this will allow for greater interoperabilitiy across projects. At present, the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) tags London toponyms in Shakespeare’s plays using MoEML’s XML:ids. This allows MoEML to harvest or point to mention of any placename in an ISE text. (To see how this works, click on Cheapside here and scroll to the very bottom of the article to see where this placename is mentioned in the ISE. If you click on the ISE quotation mentioning Cheapside, you will leave the MoEML website and be taken to that quotation in the ISE project’s website. This is a fine example of digital project interoperability!)

Eventually, we plan to include latitude and longitude coordinates (in addition to Agas Map coordinates) for as many entries in the MoEML gazetteer as possible. Thus, another possible use for the gazetteer would be for other projects to embed it as a geocoding tool on their websites. If you have a large data set and/or want to use our gazetteer for data mining toponyms, contact Project Director, Janelle Jenstad.

Placenames have long been of interest to scholars of language, history, and onomastics, as they reflect the transformation of a space (an area) into a place (an area that has become meaningful as a result of human activity or observation). The MoEML gazetteer will allow researchers to encounter the spaces and places of early modern London in new, different, and useful ways. We hope you benefit from using it!