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As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until
Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by high and great
(Stow 1:8), the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spaces
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Queenhithe is one of the oldest
havens or harbours for ships along the Thames. landing place
. Queenhithe
was known in the ninth century as Aetheredes hyd or the landing place of
.
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 Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
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.
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
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.
Historian and author of
The
The
The
The
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)TEI-encoded, diplomatic transcriptions of early modern mayoral shows. When complete, these digital texts will constitute a complete anthology of mayoral pageantry in London between
mdt:mdtPrimarySourceLibraryRoyal
)TEI-encoded transcriptions of early modern texts portraying the civic procession of soon-to-be-crowned English/British monarchs.
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)TEI-encoded transcriptions of early modern dramatic extracts rich in London toponyms.
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mdt:mdtEncyclopediaGeneric
)Places found throughout the city that are not confined to one space. For specific locations, see the Placeography.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocation
)Locations in early modern London. For places that appear in multiple spaces, see Generic Places.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationBars
)Bars across a street in early modern London. Bars delimited the city limits and were guarded to control ingress and egress.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationBrothel
)Brothels in early modern London.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationBookshop
)Bookshops in early modern London.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationBridge
)Bridges in early modern London. This category comes from Stow, and includes London Bridge (the stone bridge and its timber antecedent) as well as the many bridges over ditches and streams.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationChapel
)Chapels in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. Chapels do not have parishes associated with them. Chapels are usually located within churches, great houses, guildhalls, and palaces.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationChurch
)Churches in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. For the generic place, see Church.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationGate
)Gates in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. This category comes from Stow, and includes the gates in the City Wall.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationHall
)Halls in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationHospital
)The hospital of early modern London was a fast-evolving platial concept. Many religious hospitals were dissolved in or shortly
after
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationInnsofcourt
)The Inns of Courts were the law schools of early modern London.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationLiberty
)Liberties in early modern London. The term
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationMap
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mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationMapTranscription
)Transcriptions of text on the Agas Map.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationMarket
)Markets in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. For the generic place, see Market.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationMonument
)Monuments, shrines, and tombs in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationNeighbourhood
)London’s official political jurisdictions are parishes, wards, and liberties. Early modern texts also talk about areas that we might call neighbourhoods. They do not lend themselves to being mapped on the Agas map platform underlying
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationParish
)Parishes in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. Authority names come from the
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationPlayhouse
)Playhouses in early modern London.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationPrison
)Prisons in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. See
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationPunishment
)Places of punishment include gallows, stocks, and temporary scaffolds habitually erected in specific locations in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationResidence
)Significant residences in early modern London (usually great houses) or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationSite
)Sites in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationStreet
)Streets in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationSustenance
)Establishments in early modern London such as Inns, Alehouses, and Taverns where sustenance was served, or such places as remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. We include all such establishments in a single category. For the generic places, see Inn, Alehouse, Tavern, Ordinary, Bakehouse, Cook-shop, and Tobacco Shop.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationTopographical
)By the early modern period, the natural topography of the site upon which London was built had been largely overwritten by urban development. The names of streets, sites, and churches attest to the springs and rivers that were once visible. For example, the Walbrook had been bricked over, but it was still the imaginary boundary between east and west London. We list here a few topographical features to which we intend to devote pages in the future.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationWard
)Wards in early modern London.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationWaters
)Water features in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. This category comes from Stow, and includes the rivers (such as the Thames, Walbrook, and Medway), wells, conduits, tuns, cisterns, pools, ponds, fountains, and bosses (spewing wall fountains), the New River Project (
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaLocationRiverside
)Riverside wharfs, quays, landings, hithes, and stairs in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. For the generic place, see Riverside.
mdt:mdtEncyclopediaGazetteer
)A gazetteer of the placenames of early modern London.
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mdt:mdtEncyclopediaGlossary
)Glossary of early modern terms.
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