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St. Bartholomew the Less, formerly the chapel of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, was refounded as a parish church in 1547. It has been on its present site in Smithfield since 1184. John Lyly and Thomas Bodley are buried in the church.

 Jamie Zabel Jamie Zabel JZ

Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel was an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication Moveable Type (2020) and presented at the University of Victoria’s 2021 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. During her time at MoEML, she made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey as proofreader, editor, and encoder, coordinated the encoding of the 1633 edition, and researched and authored a number of encyclopedia articles and geo-coordinates to supplement both editions. She also played a key role in managing the correction process of MoEML’s Gazetteer.

 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.

 Richard Arnold Richard Arnold 1521/22

Merchant and chronicler. Author of Arnold’s Chronicle.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry VIII Henry VIII King of England King of Ireland 1491-07-07 28 January 1547/48

King of England and Ireland 1509-1547.

ODNB Wikipedia John Lyly John Lyly 1554/55 1606/07

Writer and playwright.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir Thomas Bodley Sir Thomas Bodley

Founder of the Bodleian Library. Buried at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

ODNB Born digital. Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.] Prockter, Adrian, and Robert Taylor, comps. The A to Z of Elizabethan London. London: Guildhall Library, 1979. Print. [This volume is our primary source for identifying and naming map locations.] St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

According to Stow, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital was located on the west side of Smithfield in Farringdon Without Ward. Originally a religious hospital, it was founded by its first prior, Rahere, in 1102 (Stow 1598, sig. X1r). It was dissolved under Henry VIII and reendowed and granted to the City of London in 1544 as a part of the civic hospital system.

(STBA2.xml) Smithfield

Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).

(SMIT1.xml) St. Bartholomew the Great

St. Bartholomew the Great was a church in Farringdon Without Ward on the south side of Long Lane, Smithfield. It was made a parish church at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was declared a gift to the citizens of London for relieving of the Poore in 1546 (Stow 1633, sig. 2N5r). Under Mary I, the site and building were given to the Dominican order to be used as Blackfriars, St. Bartholomew’s before being restored under Elizabeth I.

(STBA1.xml) London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

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Location:

Location

St. Bartholomew the Less was located in West Smithfield, on the south east side of the open field. Prockter and Taylor identify it with the church marked 32 on the map (Prockter 47). It was built and still stands inside the grounds the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (colloquially known as Bart’s).

Etymology

Before the Dissolution, the church was the chapel of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, located on the precinct of the hospital. In 1521, Richard Arnold’s Chronicle called it The chapell wythin Bartholomew Spitell (qtd. in Harben). The function and name of the chapel was changed by royal order in 1547, at which point the chapel became the church of St. Bartholomew the Little (qtd. in Harben). Little was a disambiguator that distinguished the new parish church from the nearby St. Bartholomew the Great.

Literary Significance

Literary figures buried in this church include John Lyly (1553–1606), author of Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580), whose eponymous hero gave rise to a fashion for Euphuism. Lyly’s eight surviving plays for the boy companies of the 1580s and 1590s include Gallathea (1592). Also buried here is Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), who founded the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and famously excluded plays from his collection.

Post-Fire History

Being outside the city walls, the church was not damaged in the Great Fire. It is one of the few churches in London where one can still view medieval bells in a late medieval bell tower. To visit St. Bartholomew the Less today, enter the grounds of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital through the main entrance (the Henry VIII gate) in West Smithfield.

Links

Further Reading and Links of Interest:

Walter Thornbury on The Churches of Bartholomew-The-Great and Bartholomew-The-Less (1878), available courtesy of BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp351-359. St. Bartholomew the Great website, with page on St. Bartholomew the Less: https://www.greatstbarts.com/about/st-barts-the-less/ Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks website: https://londonparishclerks.smugmug.com/Parishes-Churches/Individual-Parish-Info/St-Bartholomew-the-Less Friends of the City Churches: http://www.london-city-churches.org.uk/Churches/StBartholomewtheLess/index.html