Copyright held by
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Further details of licences are available from our
Licences page. For more
information, contact the project director,
Provider: University of Victoria
Database: The Map of Early Modern London
Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
TY - ELEC
A1 - Holmes, Martin
A1 - Takeda, Joey
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - Early Modern Calendars
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/CALE6.htm
UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/CALE6.xml
ER -
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
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
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.
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
Dates and calendars present notoriously difficult problems for scholars of the medieval and arly modern periods. Widespread variations in the use of the Julian calendar across Europe meant that travelling from city to city even within the same country might mean transitioning from one year to another (R. L. Poole, qtd. in Cheney 8). In
MoEML takes a very scrupulous approach to encoding dates. We tag Julian dates as carefully as possible, specifying what variant of the Julian calendar is in use, and our web application converts those dates to a Gregorian equivalent in the form of an explanatory popup. For further information, see our presentation
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. See our