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At the same time, we experiment with new digital modes of answering GeoHumanities questions. An early contributor to the spatial turn and literary geographic information systems (GIS), MoEML provides a virtual space for exploring the meaning and representation of cultural space in the London of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We also experiment with new ways of working collaboratively as teams and across institutions and disciplines.
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Our edition of the Agas map offers a carefully edited map-like visualization of the city and environs onto which we have plotted many urban locations and topographic features. The built-in drawing tools allow users to generate custom maps and draw their own points, lines, and polygons on the map. Customized maps may be bookmarked and/or downloaded for non-commercial use in classrooms and scholarly presentations.
The Encyclopedia provides a number of interoperable resources: Placeography, Gazetteer, Personography, Orgography, Topics, Glossary, and Bibliography. The location essays in the Placeography, the heart of the Encyclopedia, call upon evidence from history, literature, geography, and archaeology to give a thick description
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The Library offers diplomatic transcriptions and page images of texts that are crucial to our understanding of early modern literary London but are rarely anthologized or have never been edited at all.
We offer the world’s first complete anthology of the Elizabethan and Jacobean mayoral shows. The in-text facsimile transcriptions are finished. Modern editions are forthcoming.
We are working on the world’s first scholarly editions of the 1618 and 1633
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