This release (v.6.3) marks the official launch of our new static site. One of the
flagship projects for the SSHRC-funded Endings Project, MoEML has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of producing static editions
of large-scale digital humanities projects. The new version of the site is comprised
entirely of statically generated XHTML pages. Every time an encoder makes a change
to our source XML files, our build server runs an Apache Ant build that recreates the entire MoEML site—not only the XHTML pages, but also The Gazetteer of Early Modern London, each of our various XML outputs, and a number of other generated files—all from the source TEI. The entire site (other
than the search page) thus works without a server, which means that the site is not
only faster than ever, but it is also well suited for long-term preservation. Programmers Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda are responsible for the conception, programming, implementation, testing, and documentation
of the static build process. Their documentation for MoEML’s static build can be found
here.
Funding News
The University Librarian, Jonathan Bengtson, and Lisa Goddard (Associate University
Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Strategy) generously provided a seed grant to help
us work on augmenting our Gazetteer for linked data purposes. These funds kept MoEML
at work through the 2017-2018 winter.
Janelle Jenstad and Co-Applicants Martin Holmes and Mark Kaethler were awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for 2018-2023 for a new project called Walking Texts in Early Modern London. The links below will take you to pages explaining more about our team and setting
out our plans for the two key parts of the project.
We are honoured and grateful to have these eight academic and cultural luminaries
share their time and expertise with us.
New Experts
Also generously contributing their scholarly expertise to MoEML are Shamma Boyarin, who will help us transcribe and translate the Hebrew passages in Stow’s Survey, and J. Caitlin Finlayson, who brings her experience editing and researching mayoral shows to the Editorial
Board.
New Team Members
Thanks to the SSHRC funding, we’ve been able to hire a new team of researchers, programmers,
and encoders. Katie Tanigawa has returned as our Project Manager and Managing Editor. Having completed his apprenticeship
as Junior Programmer, Joey Takeda is now a Programmer. Our new Junior Programmer is Tracey El Hajj. Tye Landels-Gruenewald is working remotely from Ontario to help us clear the decks for the new project.
English Graduate Students Chase Templet, Brooke Isherwood, and Carly Cumpstone are working on the Gazetteer. English undergraduates Lucas Simpson and Amorena Roberts are working on the mayoral shows. English undergraduates Kate LeBere and Christopher Horne are working on aligning the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey.
New Content
New content published with this release includes the following encyclopedia entries
and texts:
A new article on The Wall, the product of a Pedagogical Partnership with Meg Roland and her students at Marylhurst University. Professor Roland and her students visited
Rome and London for their course, then brought their knowledge of Rome, London, and
Roman London to bear on their research into the history of the London Wall.
A transcription of The Several Places Where You May Hear News, a fun broadside wood engraving identifying the childbed chamber, church, the market,
the hothouse, the bakehouse, the conduit, the alehouse, and the riverside as the places
to hear the news.
A reworking of one of MoEML’s earliest library texts, The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage, first encoded in 2000, five years before MoEML adopted TEI as its standard. Our
current practice, developed for our forthcoming editions of the mayoral shows and
Stow’s Survey, is to separate texts and paratexts into separate files. You can view Jennie Butler’s short introduction to the Queen’s Majesty’s Passage here.
We have 209 draft documents in the pipeline, in various stages of completion, review,
proofing, and publication. They will be published over the next few releases. Some
of these draft documents are Finding Aids that may be of immediate value to researchers, even in their unreviewed state:
Joey Takeda’s Bill of Mortality Finding Aid (in proofing)
A Cross-Index for Pantzer Locations (in progress)
Variant Toponyms Listed by Carlin and Belcher (in progress)
Variant Toponyms Listed in Ogilby and Morgan (in progress)
A Mapography of Early Modern London (in progress)
Quantifying Progress
Our diagnostics tools allow us to quantify our progress. In the last year, MoEML added:
956 toponyms (place names) in texts across the site
3336 person names across the site
OpenLayers and OpenStreetMaps
We have switched our modern map rendering from Google Maps to OpenStreetMaps / OpenLayers.
This change means that all our map rendering code is now based on the same library
(OpenLayers). We have also brought the version of OpenLayers used in the Agas Map
fully up to date. This update frees us from dependence on Google APIs, which tend
to change a little too frequently for our peace of mind. Programmer Martin Holmes was responsible for this initiative; thanks Martin!
26 May 2017
Dr. Mark Kaethler Joins MoEML Leadership Team
Dr. Mark Kaethler, Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows
MoEML is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Mark Kaethler to the MoEML leadership
team. Mark brings to MoEML his deep knowledge of mayoral pageantry and classroom experience
of teaching pageant books and having students encode them in TEI.
As Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, Mark will oversee completion of MoEML’s anthology
of all the Elizabethan and Jacobean mayoral shows. We have published 12 of 31 shows,
with a few more texts in draft or various stages of review and one critical essay
(the latter intended for a Critical Companion). Mark has already edited two of the
shows, one on his own (London’s Tempe) and one with his students via a MoEML Pedagogical
Partnership.
Now a full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, Alberta), Mark received
his PhD from the University of Guelph in 2016; his dissertation focused on Jacobean
politics and irony in the works of Thomas Middleton, including Middleton’s mayoral
show The Triumphs of Truth. His work on politics and civic pageantry has appeared
in the peer-reviewed journals Upstart and This Rough Magic. He is the co-editor with
Janelle Jenstad and Jennifer Roberts-Smith of a forthcoming volume of essays entitled
Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2017) and
co-authored a piece on creating the digital anthology of mayoral shows with Jenstad
for a forthcoming collection of essays on early modern civic pageantry.
This new role with MoEML affords Mark the opportunity to share his research skills
in governance, civic communities, urban navigation, bibliographical studies, and the
digital humanities with our readers and contributors.
Welcome to the MoEML team, Mark!
30 May 2016
The Scout Report Lists MoEML as One of Their Top 10 Sites of 2016
Scout Report Banner
The Internet Scout recently included MoEML in their list of top ten best websites of the past academic
year! The Internet Scout staff takes pride in providing links to some of the best online
resources in our weekly Scout Report. Although all of the resources we cover are valuable,
inevitably some stand out from the pack. In this year’s Best of issue, we share some of our favorite sites from the past academic year.
The editors wrote the following about MoEML: Venturing from the twenty-first century into the streets of early modern England hasn’t
always been easy, but thanks to this intricately detailed interactive Map, that is
no longer the case. Users can search by street name or category of location, and by
clicking on a particular building or street, the user is linked to a series of documents
detailing its history and role in society. We appreciate the work that went into each
component of this project, including the detailed Encyclopedia and the Library of
primary sources that helped recreate this glimpse into the world of William Shakespeare,
Queen Elizabeth, and London’s many lesser-known inhabitants. (Scout Report)
15 August 2016
MoEML Seeks Two Mitacs Interns
for Summer 2017
Mitacs Student Platform.
MoEML seeks two Mitacs Globalink Research Interns for Summer 2017! One intern
will work on Geolocating Shakespeare’s London; the
other one will work on Digital Mapping of Early Modern London.
Mitacs requirements:You must be enrolled as a full-time student in an
undergraduate or combined undergraduate/Master’s degree granting program at
an accredited and eligible university. Official partner countries are
Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and
Tunisia.
Click here to begin the
application and read more about the two positions. Search for the keyword Map of Early Modern London.
Geolocating Shakespeare’s London
The present project is to locate on the Agas Map the remaining locations in the Map
of
Early Modern London’s placeography and determine their GIS coordinates.
Geolocating a historical street, site, or other location entails historical,
archaeological, cartographic, and occasionally literary research. We then capture
the fruits of that research in the XML gazetteer that
populates the map. We map locations on the Agas Map using custom drawing
tools. We use a custom API (Vertexer) to capture latitude and longitude
coordinates from tiled map data. These two complementary mapping
technologies enable us to give users both an Elizabethan image of the place
(via the Agas Map) as well as a real-world location to which they can walk
(via Google Maps).
This work allows scholars and students of early modern literature to understand how
space and place figure in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Mapping
the places of cultural production enables us to understand the relationships between
cultural producers like publishers and playhouses, and to visualize the flow of people
and material culture around London.
Intern will geolocate London sites already identified by MoEML by researching archaeological,
literary, and historical data, then adding geocoordinates to our XML files. Under
the guidance of the MoEML project director and senior RA, the Intern will summarize
the research and produce short abstracts for the MoEML Placeography. The Intern will
also identify additional locations to be added to the MoEML Encyclopedia (such as
taverns, conduits, and bookshops), and turn raw datasets into new location file for
MoEML. We will provide training in XML, TEI, GIS, use of historical databases, research
hygiene, how to conduct multi-disciplinary historical research, and project documentation.
Required skills/background: Excellent written and spoken English; curiosity about the early modern period and
desire to learn new skills; facility with computers.
Desirable skills: Knowledge of historical and/or literary research methods; some knowledge of TEI
or other XML language (on-the-job training will be provided, however).
Digital Mapping of Early Modern London
The present project is to develop and implement static tiled maps for the Map of
Early Modern London. This work will allow us to add additional
historical maps to our OpenLayers mapping platform, make use of
Open Street Maps data, and stabilize our technology for long-term archiving.
The project will mobilize the geographical data added to the database by
other RAs and make it possible to display our data on any georeferenced
surface.
The intern will take on the role of Junior Programmer (Mapping). The intern will work
with the Lead Programmer to add additional historical maps to the OpenLayers stack
in MoEML, and to replace Google Street Maps functionality with onsite open map tiles.
The successful intern may be involved in building new mapping tools, depending on
the skills the intern brings to the position. We will provide training in XML, TEI,
GIS*, OpenLayers, Electron (http://electron.atom.io/), and our custom APIs (e.g.,
Vertexer at http://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/maps/vertexer/). The intern will be a
full member of the MoEML team and will have the opportunity to produce and implement
new technologies on the site. (*Note that we do not work in ArcGIS.)
This position will appeal to students who have experience in Historical GIS and/or
the technical side of tiled map building; to students who have taken GIS courses in
geography departments and who wish to extend their geohumanities skills; and/or to
students who understand how to build tools from open source resources.
Required skills/background: Experience with historical GIS; willingness to use programs other than ArcGIS; facility
with CSS.
Desirable skills: Knowledge of tiled map building and configuration; some knowledge of Javascript
and regular expressions.
MoEML has a strong history of training students. On-site training will be provided.
Intern will work alongside other MoEML team members in the supportive environment
of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre.
The application deadline for both positions is September 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM Pacific
Daylight Time.
Additional eligibility requirements, as listed on the Mitacs website:
You must be enrolled as a full-time student in an undergraduate or combined undergraduate/Master’s
degree granting program at an accredited and eligible university. Official partner
countries are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
and Tunisia.
Be in the 2nd (second) to last year of an undergraduate program, or combined undergraduate/Master’s
program.
Have a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 semesters of undergraduate coursework remaining
after you participate in your internship in order to be eligible. For example, if
you are successful in receiving an internship, you will need to complete at least
one more semester of undergraduate or joint undergraduate/ Master’s coursework and
have no more than three semesters remaining.
Students will come to Canada during the period of May to September in 2017.
Provide an official transcript from your home university. Note that, if your transcript
is not in English, you must submit a translated and notarized copy before the application
deadline.
27 July 2016
MoEML Commits 10,000th Change to
Repository
A recent SVN checkout, in the command line.
At 16h37 (UTC-8), on 25 July, 2016, we committed
the 10,000th revision to our Subversion Repository. Everything we do is housed
in a repository that tracks every change we make to the site. At the beginning
of each work session, each of us checks out the repository. Throughout the day,
we commit our revised files back to the repository. Doing so means we can roll
back any file — or even the whole project — to an earlier version if necessary.
It also means we can have multiple people working on MoEML simultaneously from
any part of the world. We set up the repository on 19
October, 2011. The project was already 12 years old by then, but we
started counting revisions at 17h10 that day. Predictably, our awesome Lead
Programmer Martin Holmes committed
the 1st and 10,000th revisions. Nerd out, Early Modern Londoners!
13 July 2016
MoEML Director of Pedagogy and Outreach Speaks at Folger
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Image courtesy of the Library.
On 14 June 2016, MoEML’s Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, Kim McLean-Fiander,
gave a workshop on Teaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates Using
the Map of Early Modern London at the Folger Institute.
McLean-Fiander presented participants with three approaches to TSU (Teaching
Shakespeare to Undergraduates) using MoEML as a tool/resource and publishing
venue:
Kim McLean-Fiander, MoEML’s Director of Pedagogy and
Outreach.
Drawing on and using the MoEML Map (developing spatial awareness of early
modern London)
Researching and writing an article on a London placename or topic and
publishing it in the MoEML Encyclopedia (developing research and
collaboration skills)
Contributing a text or dramatic extract to the MoEML Library by either
using our Dramatic Extract Spreadsheet Tool or using TEI-XML and encoding it
yourself (developing editorial, collaboration and/or XML encoding
skills)
The workshop was attended by team members from the various First Folio tour teams
from across the US. (Learn more about the tour and the teams here and here.) One
of the participants, Sujata Iyengar,
shared one of her assignments with the other participants. She has written a
blog post about her experience (including
students’ submissions) and shared her assignment with MoEML.
MoEML is pleased to publish Jacqueline Watson‘s
article on Ram Alley, a place once referred to as
the most pestilent court in London by Walter George Bell. In this article,
Watson explores Ram
Alley’s history as a sanctuary for criminals and examines the alley’s
place in early modern texts. Thank you, Jacqueline, for your fascinating
contribution to the site!
1 March 2016
New Article on Sewage and Waste
Management in Early Modern London by Christopher Foley
MoEML is pleased to announce the publication of Christopher
Foley’s article, Sewage and
Waste Management. Foley’s article begins with a compelling
look at the ideological and medical theories that shaped the development of
sewage and waste management systems in London. This introduction sets the stage
for Foley to explore the importance of waste management systems in early modern
London. Throughout the article, Foley reveals how improvements to these systems
impacted life in London, how related protocols were legislated and enforced, and
how early modern literature addresses the pressing issues related to proper
waste disposal. Read his fascinating article to
learn about this element of London infrastructure and about practices that
affected the everyday lives of early modern Londoners.
8 February 2016
New How To
Guides by Kristen A. Bennett’s Stonehill College Class
With What’s in an
Imprint?,Tye Landels concludes
his series Georeferencing the Early
Modern Book Trade by presenting the prototypes of his
methods for building bibliographic geodata databases of early modern texts. In
the process, he highlights the exceptional data mining work of the Shakeosphere
team and demonstrates the potential benefits of scholarly collaboration between
digital projects. Landels begins the post by describing David
Eichmann and Blaine
Greteman’s groundbreaking data mining methods for extracting
geographic data points form the English Short Title Catalogue for the Shakeosphere project. Eichmann and Greteman generously
shared their data with Landels and MoEML and, from this information, Landels
created a series of XSLT-generated TEI-XML databases for five categories of
bibliographic data extracted from the ESTC: sources,
identified stationers, identified locations, relations between locations, and
relations between stationers and location. As Landels explains, the fifth
database provides a particularly rich resource for geodata about early modern
print activities and allows early modern scholars and print historians to
make large-scale queries about locations of print
activity that have hitherto been difficult to
compile. See Landels’s prototype methods and read more about his processes here.
8 December 2015
MoEML Publishes Tye Landels’s Georeferencing the Early Modern London Book Trade: 2. Filling the
Space in Bibliographies
TEI-XML template for geocoded
bibliography.
In his third post, Filling the Space
in Bibliographies, in the series Georeferencing the Early Modern Book
Trade,Tye Landels points to
MoEML as one example that answers his provocative question: How might
programmers and encoders design a database that dynamically links data
points about material books and stationers with spatial variables?
Landels explains how his critical interventions in MoEML’s bibliographic
geocoding practices allowed MoEML to capture key geographic data for early
modern books. He walks readers through each of the TEI-XML elements used and, in
a practice that illustrates Landels’s commitment to interdisciplinary
collaboration and scholarship, he explains the possible significance of these
elements for early modern print historians and geographers. The model Landels
offers in this entry sets the stage for his discussion in the final post of his
series, which illustrates how print historians and programmers can work together
to extract the data needed to populate such information dense bibliographic
databases.
4 December 2015
MoEML Announces the Publication of Tye
Landels’s Georeferencing the Early Modern London Book Trade: 1.
Theory without Practice
It is high time that programmers, encoders, print historians, and
geographers collaborate to develop a database (or series of databases) that
geocode(s) the information that already exists in online resources such as
the STC and BBTI.
So writes Tye Landels in his second post, Theory without Practice in the series for MoEML
Georeferencing the Early Modern
Book Trade. In this post, Landels argues that despite the
growing interest in early modern studies with the geography of the
book, geographical information in bibliographic data sets remain
relatively unstudied by scholars. Landels offers a rich description of this
burgeoning field, deftly argues for the need to harvest such geographical data,
and posits that an interdisciplinary approach is needed to fully explore
questions related to the geography of the early modern book trade. With this
post, Landels lays the foundations for his next two installments, which will
theorize and suggest a template for a dynamic and searchable database of
geographical information in early modern books.
25 November 2015
Announcing New Blog Series: Georeferencing the Early Modern London Book Trade
Early modern London print shop. Image courtesy
of Wikimedia Commons.
MoEML is pleased to publish the introduction to
Tye Landels’s series of posts, Georeferencing the Early Modern Book Trade. In these posts, Landels
reflects on the question, how can book historians use digital tools such
as GIS and TEI to analyze spatial data points in bibliographies of early
modern London books? This question leads Landels to explore the
importance of analyzing the geography of the book, the
structures and languages required to trace such geographies, and the potentials
inherent in making this data available and accessible in digital forms.
Landels’s interest in these areas inspired him to develop a template for a
searchable georeferenced database for early modern books and, in collaboration
with Janelle Jenstad and the Shakeosphere team at the
University of Iowa (Blaine Greteman and David Eichman), develop a process for
extracting geographic information from the imprints of early modern books.
16 September 2015
Thanks, Farewells, and Welcomes
MoEML Team Lunch. Left to right: Katie McKenna,
Joey Takeda, Janelle Jenstad, Kim McLean-Fiander, Tye Landels, and Katie
Tanigawa.
It’s always a bittersweet day when team members move on. On the one hand, MoEML’s training mandate is designed to give students and
research affiliates skills they can take to new projects and new challenges in
and beyond academia. On the other hand, we miss their friendship and their
unique contributions to the MoEML team.
This past summer, we congratulated Kim
McLean-Fiander, who has taken up a post in the Department of English
at UVic as an Assistant Teaching Professor. Kim joined us in February 2013 as an
Early Career Researcher and quickly became Assistant Project Director and then,
in January 2015, Associate Project Director. Kim led the charge on our site redesign in 2013, researched and oversaw the
editorial emendations to the Agas Map in 2014, and
played a key role in our Pedagogical
Partnership Project. She’s also been the principal voice you’ve been
hearing in our social media posts. She’s made MoEML
better in countless ways. In this case, the sadness of saying good-bye is
entirely mitigated by the fact that her new office is just down the hall from
the MoEML office. Kim has generously agreed to remain
on the team as our Director of Pedagogy and Outreach; in this new role, she’ll
continue to oversee the Pedagogical
Partnership Project and contribute to our social media presence.
Katie Tanigawa has stepped into the breach and taken
up the role of Project Manager and Managing Editor. Katie is a fourth-year PhD
candidate in the Department of English at UVic. Her research interests include
modernism and mapping. She and Alex Christie developed the Z-Axis Project, a very
cool tool for warping maps to show the density of literary references. She’s
also an experienced encoder who knows her way around the TEI Guidelines.
Welcome, Katie T.!
After completing her BA in April, Catriona Duncan
took a well earned trip to Europe. She returned to UVic this month as an MA
student. We’re glad to have her back for the final stages of encoding the 1598 edition of Stow’s Survey of
London and the first stages of encoding the 1633 edition in
preparation for versioning the four editions (1598, 1603, 1618, and 1633).
DH student Katie McKenna also returns to help us
with the ongoing work of capturing geospatial coordinates for our Placeography
entries. In addition, we’ll keep her busy with the next mayoral pageant books
in the transcription queue.
With characteristic modesty, Martin Holmes
positions himself outside the frame.
Joey Takeda, now entering the final year of his
Honours degree, and recent graduate Tye Landels
continue to rebuild, rethink, and improve every corner of the site. Tye has
recently rewritten the handling for our Personography entries and created a very useful index to our Praxis documentation. In his
new role as Junior Programmer, Joey has developed new ways of linking related
documents and fixed legacy code throughout the site. Joey and Tye are now
working together to implement three new calendars to accommodate the many ways
that early modern writers indicated the date in their texts.
Martin Holmes as Lead Programmer and Greg Newton as Mapping Expert round out the MoEML team for 2015-2016.
MoEML has been chosen to be part of the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
(GRI). The Mitacs GRI is a competitive initiative for international
undergraduates from Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Mexico, Saudi
Arabia, Tunisia, and Vietnam to complete a paid intership in Canada.
Mitacs is offering the opportunity for an international student to intern with
MoEML at the University of Victoria. The intern
will work closely with the MoEML team, researching
London locations, acquiring skills in the digital geohumanities, including the
TEI dialect of XML and basic GIS skills, as well as robust historical and
literary research skills.
London’s second purpose-built playhouse, the Curtain was the venue for a number of early modern
playing companies, such as the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men and Worcester’s
Men. Did you know that the earliest documented play performed
at the theatre was Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humor in 1598, with William Shakespeare in the cast ? Or that
it is most likely the Curtain that was meant by
this wooden O in Henry V (Shakespeare TLN 14)?
MoEML would like to thank Dr. Kate
McPherson and her entire class for their fantastic article!
17 July 2015
Peer-Reviewed Article on The Sounds of Pageantry by Trudell
MoEML is delighted to publish a new peer-reviewed
Encyclopedia Topics article on The Sounds of
Pageantry by Dr. Scott
Trudell, Assistant Professor of English at the University of
Maryland, College Park.
A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres
and recreation, 1629. Image courtesy of LUNA at
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Discription of a maske, presented before the Kinges
Majestie at White-Hall,1607. Image courtesy of LUNA at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Trudell’s essay offers an introduction to the sounds
of early modern pageantry. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century royal entries and
Lord Mayor’s Shows resounded with the piercing blares of trumpets, the clamor of
boisterous crowds, the poetry of dramatic performances, and the melodies of
virtuosic child singers. Many of the period’s most prominent poets, from George
Gascoigne to Thomas Heywood, wrote ornate verses for outdoor pageants, along
with printed records outlining the allegorical significance of the events. Yet
pageant books are only a starting point for exploring instrumental music,
raucous celebrations, explosions of fireworks, and other ephemeral sounds that
were not or could not be recorded. This essay traces how diaries, treatises,
plays, poems, and livery company account books convey the rich variety of noises
that echoed through the streets of London on pageant days.
Trudell’s research and teaching focus on early
modern literature, media theory and music. In addition to his current book
project about song and mediation from Sidney and Shakespeare to Jonson and
Milton, he has research interests in gender studies, digital humanities,
pageantry and itinerant theatricality.
31 March 2015
New BlogPost on Paint Over Print Conference
If you are interested in old maps (and who isn’t?), read Janelle Jenstad’s new blogpost about
the recent Paint Over Print conference held at the Kislak Center
for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Libraries. The blogpost includes video links to
the conference presentations, so you can learn all about hand-coloured books and
maps, even if you were unable to attend the conference!
Paint Over Print Conference Poster
10 March 2015
MoEML Roadshow 2015 Update
Queen’s University, final stop on MoEML
Roadshow 2015
MoEML Director, Janelle
Jenstad recently returned from the MoEML
Roadshow 2015, with stops in Tuscaloosa (AL) and Kingston (ON). Janelle started
at the University of Alabama, where she gave a talk on Building
a Digital Gazetteer for Shakespeare’s London in the Hudson Strode Lecture
Series. She had wonderful conversations with Hudson Strode MA and PhD
students over delicious meals, and thoroughly enjoyed southern hospitality.
She also made a classroom visit to our first encoding partner, Jennifer Drouin and her Digital Humanities graduate
students. Each student encoded a broadside order or petition. The work they
started during the visit continued virtually via live Google Talk Gadget the
following week (as depicted in the below figure), when Janelle and Drouin’s
class collaboratively encoded a number of short early modern texts that will
eventually be published on the MoEML site.
A screenshot of Jenstad and encoding
partner Drouin’s virtual classroom
encounter
After Alabama, Janelle headed to her old alma mater, Queen’s University in
Kingston, as a Return of the Alumni Triumphant speaker and as
part of their Demystifying DH speaker series. She gave two
papers, Research-Based Learning and DH Projects: MoEML’s Pedagogical
Partnership and What’s in a Placename? Building a Digital
Gazetteer of Shakespeare’s London, the latter reprising her Alabama
talk. She was introduced in the morning by Emily Murphy, graduate of the
University of Victoria and a well known figure at DHSI, and in the afternoon by her former dissertation supervisor,
Elizabeth Hanson. Janelle enjoyed her trip down memory lane and over snowbanks
in wintery Kingston. Check out the blogpost written by Queen’s PhD student, Erin Weinberg, in which she
explains that Janelle’s talk made her think about NPR’s smash-hit investigative
journalism podcast, Serial. That’s definitely a first
for MoEML!
19 January 2015
MoEML launches Experimental Map Interface (Beta)
New Experimental Agas Map Interface with several location categories
highlighted
We encourage you to play around with the map and send us feedback on both its function
and design so we can improve it before launching it officially later this year.
Some of you might like to read the Instructions found on the
toolbar menu at the top of the page to orient yourself first. Others might
prefer to jump right in and start experimenting!
Here are some things you might like to try, from the most basic to the more
complex:
Using the slider tools on the upper left side of the interface, you
can ZOOM IN AND OUT. You can also GRAB AND SLIDE THE MAP around, just as
you are accustomed to doing with other map interfaces, such as Google
Maps. You can also ROTATE THE MAP, something that might prove handy if
you would like to compare the non-geo-rectified streets or features of
the Agas map with other, more recent maps.
Using the gauge on the lower left side of the map interface, you can
ADJUST THE MAP’S OPACITY.
You can turn location categories (such as churches, sites, or streets)
off and on (in other words, HIGHLIGHT MAP FEATURES) by ticking the
relevant category in the Location categories box on the
upper right side. For example, if you tick the churches
category, all the churches on the map will appear highlighted in purple.
If you would like to select only certain churches, you can click on the
expansion arrow on the right side of the churches
category and a drop-down menu listing all the churches will appear. You
can then select or de-select as you wish. If you select All Hallows Barking and then click on the
target button on the right side, the map will
AUTOMATICALLY ZOOM in to that particular location and place it at the
centre of your viewing panel!
By clicking on the Bookmark button at the top right
toolbar menu, you can BOOKMARK A CUSTOMIZED MAP VERSION that will
include just the items in which you are interested. You can then
bookmark this particular URL and return to it any time.
More intrepid users might like to try DRAWING POINTS, LINES, or
POLYGONS on the map for teaching purposes or to communicate with MoEML about the location of a particular building,
for instance.
The possibilities are nearly limitless, so get experimenting!. We have built this
for you, so please play around and send us
feedback.
Greg Newton and Jillian Player stitching the
map
This new map has been a long time in the works. Associate Director, Kim McLean-Fiander, negotiated with the London
Metropolitan Archives to obtain the hi-resolution images in late 2013. Then,
over the past year, Greg Newton digitally stitched
the map together and made thousands of tiny adjustments. Project Director, Janelle Jenstad, and Kim also worked with local
artist, Jillian Player, to reconstruct missing
parts of the map. Finally, Lead Programmer, Martin
Holmes, did his usual magic within the OpenLayers
framework to create all the whizzy features now available to our users.
We hope you enjoy the new map!
6 January 2015
MoEML off to the MLA Convention in Vancouver!
Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention 2015
MoEML is participating in the annual MLA Convention (#mla15) this
coming Thursday to Sunday (Jan. 8-11) in Vancouver, BC. On Sunday, January 11th
(10:15-11:30am, 117 VCC West), Project Director Janelle
Jenstad, Assistant Director Kim
McLean-Fiander, Editorial Board Member Diane
Jakacki, and Pedagogical Partners Peter
Herman and Kate McPherson will be
participating in Session 697, Bringing Digital Tools into the
Classroom: A Case Study Using The Map of Early Modern
London.
Session Description: This roundtable explores the mobilization of digital
humanities (DH) projects to promote research-based learning (RBL). Participants
in The Map of Early Modern London’s pedagogical
partnership share their experience with, and posit general applications for,
this modified crowd-sourced guest editorship that benefits instructors, helps
students acquire digital research skills, and builds DH projects.
Are you a novice TEI encoder or a project manager who is not a TEI expert? Or,
are you interested in doing research into encoding practices on a large scale
across multiple projects? If so, keep reading!
MoEML’s lead programmer, Martin
Holmes, has built a TEI Codesharing
Service that could well make your encoding life a lot easier. The
service is a simple API (Application Programming Interface) that allows MoEML to share examples of how we use the TEI tagset to
encode particular textual features. Since most TEI users are self-taught or
learn by example, and since a comprehensive set of examples suitable for
inductive learning has not been available in the past, this Codesharing Service
fills a big gap in the world of TEI encoding.
Read Martin’s new blog post that explains the ins
and the outs of this fabulous service.
The Web interface of the CodeSharing service on the MoEML site.
Arundel House, from the North by Wenceslas Hollar. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
MoEML is pleased to announce the publication of a new
peer-reviewed article on Arundel House by Emma K. Atwood, a doctoral candidate at Boston College working on domestic
architecture on the English Renaissance stage.
This substantial contribution (some 3,800 words) to the Sites section of the
MoEMLEncyclopedia discusses the location,
name, history, and political, intellectual, and artistic significance of this
important property in early modern London.
Did you know that Arundel House has links to Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon? Or that it was the site of Princess Elizabeth’s alleged affair with Thomas Seymour? Or that it was previously called Bath
House or Bath Inn, Hampton Place, and Seymour Place? How about that it housed a
great sculpture collection and that, in a 1972 archaeological dig, seven
classical marbles from Thomas Howard’s collection
were uncovered?
If you want to know more, read this important new addition to MoEML.
Congratulations to Emma Atwood on this fascinating
article!
1 October 2014
New article on the Cockpit or Phoenix Playhouse published
This substantial contribution (some 3,400 words) to the Playhouses section
of the MoEMLEncyclopedia discusses the location
and construction of the Cockpit/Phoenix, includes a history of the various playing
companies associated with it, and offers a useful, sortable table of its
repertoire that shows, for instance, just how prominent playwrights such as
James Shirley, John
Ford, and Philip Massinger were at that
venue.
You will learn about the rivalries between the Red
Bull and Blackfriars theatres and the
Cockpit/Phoenix,
about the nostalgia-driven Beeston’s
Boys, about the Shrove Tuesday Riots that led to the re-branding of
the Cockpit as the Phoenix, and much more.
Pedagogical Partnership expands as MoEML Director visits Washington College, MD
Washington College news story on MoEML Pedagogical
Partnership
MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership Project is going from strength to strength!
Last month we published an article on the Blackfriars Theatre produced by partner Peter
C. Herman and his class at San
Diego State University. Then, last week, MoEML Director, Janelle Jenstad, gave
a talk about the project at Washington
College in Chestertown, Maryland, and visited the class of one of our
newest partners, Professor Kathryn Moncrief.
Moncrief’s class will be producing a collaboratively written article on The Rose playhouse. One of her students has written a
news story on their English Department website about Janelle’s visit
and their exciting new venture with us, as has the WC student newspaper, The Elm.
Moncrief is just one of a growing roster of MoEML pedagogical partners. We currently have nine other
professors scattered around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Exeter,
England to Arlington, Texas, who have decided to incorporate a MoEML module into their early modern literature and theatre
courses, including the following:
Briony Frost and her M.A. Renaissance
Literature class (Country, City and Court: Renaissance
Literature, 1558-1618) at Exeter University will
prepare encyclopedia entries on many of the sites (numbered 1-12) on
The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage.
Anita Sherman and the
undergraduate/graduate students in her Revenge Drama
and City Comedy: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries course at American University will be
doing a place-based reading of Ben Jonson’s
Bartholomew
Fair and will prepare articles on Smithfield and some of the surrounding
streets and sites.
These partners have kindly agreed to share their course syllabi so that others
can benefit from their experience. To see the syllabi and to put faces to the
names of these new partners, visit our Pedagogical Partnership Project page.
MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership Project comes to fruition! This month, we
published our first encyclopedia article prepared by a group of students at
another institution working under the guest editorship of their onsite
instructor.
Professor Peter C. Herman ably guided fourteen
upper-level undergraduate students (Ryan Brothers, Shaun Deilke, Amber Dodson,
Elaine Flores, Alexandra Gardella, Roy Gillespie, Ashley Gumienny, Mark Jacobo,
Karen Kluchonic, Alyssa Lammers, Cassady Lynch, Douglas Payne, Andres Villota,
Andrea Wilkum) at San Diego State
University through the ins and outs of early modern research in order
collectively to produce a nearly 6,000-word scholarly article on the Blackfriars Theatre.
Their excellent new contribution includes details of the repertory, theatrical
practices, architecture, and audiences of both the first and second Blackfriars Theatres, as well as information on
some of the key figures (including Richard Farrant,
James Burbage, and his sons, Richard Burbage and Cuthbert
Burbage) involved in both theatres’ history.
MoEML would like to thank Peter
Herman and his class for being such intrepid and enthusiastic pilot
participants in our pedagogical experiment. We think the results demonstrate
just how successfully instructors can enagage their undergraduate students in
scholarly research. Furthermore, their work has the wonderful potential to help
students elsewhere learn more about early modern London. Indeed, MoEML has received positive feedback from another scholar
who has already used this new article on the Blackfriars in her own teaching. Congratulations, Peter and SDSU students!
A year ago, project alumna Sarah Milligan was
ensconced in the Folger
Shakespeare Library reading room, poring over a heavily marginated
copy of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 edition).
Today, we publish her blog post reflecting on the
experience of moving from EEBO to the
material book. Sarah tentatively identifies the second marginator of the book as
John Gibbon, a London-born herald who lived from 1629-1718. Sarah identifies
with Gibbon. They both performed extensive mark-up of this text, Gibbon with a
quill pen and Sarah with an XML editing program.
20 June 2014
Introducing the First Digital Gazetteer of Early Modern London!
We are very proud 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. After years of researching and tagging London toponyms (i.e.,
placenames) from a wide range of texts, we have in our database tens of
thousands of instances of placenames. We’ve been able to repurpose that data to
build an easy-to-use online gazetteer.
L-R: Martin, Tye, Zaqir, Nathan, Sarah, and Kim after our recent
farewell lunch
MoEML would like to extend hearty congratulations to
Graduate Research Assistants, Zaqir Virani and
Nathan Phillips, who successfully defended
their M.A. theses in English at the University of Victoria recently. Zaqir has
already high-tailed it to Vancouver to pursue work, and Nathan will be zooming
off to Brown University this autumn to
begin his Ph.D. Well done, masters, both of you!
We would also like to wish Research Assistant Meredith
Holmes all the best as she wraps up her work for the project and
heads into the second year of her M.A. program in English, and to Research
Assistant Sarah Milligan who is departing in order
to start a new and exciting phase of her life. We are all a bit envious of Sarah
who will soon be jetting off to none other than London, England! We hope, as she
walks the city’s streets, wards, and neighbourhoods, she will keep her expert eye open to any residue of
the early modern city and send us occasional reports and pictures.
MoEML Director Janelle
Jenstad, Programmer Martin Holmes, and
Assistant Director Kim McLean-Fiander regularly
comment on how fortunate we have been with our crackerjack team of RAs. They
have allowed the project to grow by leaps and bounds in the past year,
contributing in countless ways--from encoding mayoral shows and Stow’s Survey of London to showcasing the project via social
media and at various public events, such as UVic’s Ideafest.
To our outgoing RAs: We will miss your ever-thoughtful and lively contributions
to the project. Good-bye and good luck, all of you!
2 May 2014
MoEML at SAA in St Louis
St Louis Gateway Arch
The Shakespeare Association
of America (SAA) held its 42nd annual meeting in St Louis, Missouri
from April 9-12th this year, and MoEML participated in
a number of different ways.
MoEML Director Janelle
Jenstad and Assistant Director Kim
McLean-Fiander showcased the project alongside an array of other
interesting digital early modern projects, including UVic’s Internet Shakespeare
Editions, in the first ever SAA Digital Room.
SAA participants learn more about MoEML from
Janelle in the Digital Room
Conference participants also had the opportunity to learn about the ISE and MoEML and the interoperability between these two projects during
the three-day Book Fair. We were delighted to discover just how many
Shakespeareans and early modernists already use MoEML
in the classroom and to learn that many of them are keen to participate in our
Pedagogical Partnership when
they teach their next Shakespeare class. (Thanks to all those who staffed the
Book Fair table and spread the good word about both projects!)
It was not all work, though. Kim and Janelle managed to squeeze in an hour to
ride in one of the tiny pod cars to the top of the famous St Louis Gateway Arch, where they
got spectacular views of the city and the great Mississippi River.
Kim and Janelle at the top of the Gateway ArchSt Louis Gateway Arch
23 April 2014
Happy 450th Birthday,
Shakespeare!
Early Modern and Hipster Shakespeare of
Shoreditch
MoEML just couldn’t resist joining in on all the
celebrations of William Shakespeare this week.
The Bard is believed to have been born (in
1564) on April 23rd and to have died on the same day some 52 years later in
1616. (We don’t actually know his precise birthdate, but we do know that he was
baptised on April 26th and that, in the early modern period, baptisms typically
took place within the first few days after birth. Also, it’s traditional to
celebrate his birth on the 23rd because that happens to be St George’s
Day in England!)
MoEML will soon be publishing a new encyclopedia article
on The Curtain that has been collaboratively
written by our pedagogical partner, Kate McPherson,
and her Shakespeare class at Utah Valley
University. Assistant Project Director Kim
McLean-Fiander recently had the pleasure to observe (via Skype)
Kate’s class presenting their end-of-term findings, and was impressed by the
excellent research the students had conducted on the neighbourhood,
architecture, theatre companies, literary significance, playwrights, and
archaeology of the playhouse. It was heartening to learn just how valuable
MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership has been both in teaching the students
effective research skills and in instilling in them a genuine sense of
enthusiasm about Shakespeare and early modern London.
We’ll let you know when their work has been posted to the site. In the meantime,
you can get back to feasting on all the Shakespeareana in the news right now,
including the supposed recent
discovery of The Bard’s personally
annotated copy of an early modern dictionary, Alvearie, or
Quadruple Dictionarie, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s
measured response to this announcement.
The MoEML project leaders are delighted to announce that
RA and encoder Tye Landels, a third-year student in
the UVic English
Honours program and current President of the English Students Association, has
won one of ten 2014 3M
National Student Fellowships. These prestigious, highly competitive
awards honour undergraduate students in Canada who have demonstrated
qualities of outstanding leadership and who embrace a vision where the
quality of their educational experience can be enhanced in academia and
beyond. It’s a great honour for UVic and the English Department to
have one of our own students win this award. Tye will receive his award in June
at the Society for Teaching and Learning in
Higher Education conference in Kingston.
Tye Landels. Photo credit: Suzanne Ahearne.
Tye was nominated by Janelle Jenstad (MoEML Director). For the application, Tye wrote short
essays on Leadership,Challenges in
Post-Secondary Education, and Transformational
Educational Experiences. His application was warmly supported by
Lisa
Surridge (Professor of English), Martin
Holmes (Programmer in HCMC), Evan Reed-Armstrong (a recent graduate
from the English Honours program), and Jan Heinrichs (recently retired Music
Director at Stelly’s Secondary
School in Saanichton, BC). Tye’s application was one of four selected
by the VPAC to go forward toF
the Canada-wide competition.
The STLHE / SAPES website summarizes Tye’s application thus:
Tye defines leadership as a community action, arising out of a community
setting with communitarian aims. He regards himself as both a leader and a
citizen in a variety of diverse communities. As president of the University
of Victoria’s English Students’ Association, Tye has led numerous
initiatives to foster interconnectedness, fairness, and opportunity among
his department’s diverse undergraduate student body. As an encoder and
research assistant for Dr. Janelle Jenstad’s Map of Early
Modern London (MoEML), a renowned
digital encyclopedia, Tye has led a groundbreaking initiative to disseminate
the project’s technical instructions, methods, and workflow practices to
digital humanists worldwide. Moreover, as a student with physical
disabilities, Tye challenges ableist stereotypes and asserts the value of
accessibility and inclusion in the undergraduate classroom. Tye’s
firm belief in the values of equality, self-actualization, democracy, and
accessibility unites and guides his many efforts as a community leader. He
identifies and intervenes when he sees these values threatened, unrealized,
or underdeveloped in his communities. In this vein, Tye advocates for
reforming the institutions and ideologies that isolate and oppress many
undergraduate students on Canadian campuses. He believes that undergraduates
can rejuvenate institutions of higher learning and transform their local and
global communities.
MoEML history was made at the Renaissance Society of
America annual conference in New York City from March 27-29th when
project alumnus Cameron Butt (now an MA student at
the University of Waterloo) presented
on the same RSA panel as Project Director Janelle
Jenstad. Cameron’s paper was called Geography, Performance,
Technology, and Spectatorship in The Merry Wives of
Windsor.Cameron Butt, Diane Jakacki, and Janelle
Jenstad @ RSA
Janelle co-presented a paper with Diane
Jakacki of Bucknell
University called Mapping Toponyms in Early Modern Plays with
MoEML and the ISE. RSA audience members were not only impressed with the
interoperability between these two projects, but also very excited to learn
about the recent development of the MoEML
Gazetteer.
Assistant Project Director, Kim McLean-Fiander, was
also at the RSA this year. She presented on her own British
Academy/Leverhulme-funded project called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online
(WEMLO), a finding aid and editorial interface for
women’s letters from c. 1400-1700, that she co-directs with James Daybell of
Plymouth University.
Kim @ the RSA Opening Reception with some
of the UVic contingent
Kim, Janelle, Diane, and Cameron all presented for the New Technologies in
Medieval and Renaissance Studies panels that were co-organized by
Diane, Laura Estill (another MoEML alumna), and Michael Ullyot, the RSA’s new Electronic Media
Chair.
27 February 2014
New Blog Post on the Launch of MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership Project!
Peter Herman’s class @ SDSU meets the MoEML
team @UVic (in video insert) via Skype
MoEML is thrilled to announce that our pilot Pedagogical Partnership Project
(PPP)—an innovative model for teachers, student researchers, and digital
humanities projects—is now up and running.
MoEML has debated
for some time whether or not we should have a scholarly blog in addition to
this, our News page. To discover what we decided and how we arrived at that
decision, check out Project Director Janelle
Jenstad’s latest... er... blog called To Blog or Not to Blog!
10 February 2014
MoEML presents at virtual poster session!
On January 6th, 2014, MoEML research assistants Nathan
Phillips and Tye Landels presented the
latest version (v.5) of MoEML at a virtual poster
session organized by the Electronic Textual
Cultures Laboratory (ETCL) at the University of Victoria. Nathan and Tye delivered
a two-minute presentation on MoEML’s four
projects in one and, afterwards, discussed and demonstrated the
project to digital humanists from the University and Victoria and beyond.
Notable attendees included Lisa Spiro (Rice University) and Vivian Lewis
(McMaster University), who were visiting UVic as part of their Mellon-funded
study in Knowledge & Skill Capacity for Digital Scholarship.
For more information about this study, please visit the project
webpage.
14 January 2014
The new year means a
new map for MoEML!
Happy New Year from the MoEML team! We are looking
forward to a productive 2014 that will include a new, zoomable hi-resolution
version of the Agas map.
Digital images of the seven separate sheets that comprise the map are currently
being stitched together by programmer Greg Newton.
We will be redrawing all the streets, sites, and boundaries in SVG (Scalable
Vector Graphics) and will be launching it in an OpenLayers platform to provide
maximum interactivity and drawing capabilities to our users. Our edition of the
map will include critical materials about the genre, accuracy, provenance,
preservation, and subsequent adaptations of the map.
In the coming months, we will be blogging about the wide range of intellectual
questions which are arising from this fascinating process of creating an ideal
map. Watch this space!
Coming soon: zoom in on the Tower of London!
04 December 2013
MoEML then (2001) and now (2013)!
As of Monday, 9 December 2013, MoEML users will find
themselves immersed in our newly designed website. Read all about the changes
and improvements in the Welcome to
MoEML v.5 blog post by
project director Janelle Jenstad. We hope you like
the new site!
MoEML then (v.2 home page, 2001) and now (v.5
home page, 2013)
MoEML would like to congratulate research assistant
Tye Landels for receiving two awards at the
UVic English Department’s November
Convocation and Awards reception yesterday. Tye is the recipient of the Ralph Barbour Burry Memorial Scholarship and the Edgar Ferrar Corbet Scholarship both of which acknowledge excellence
in English studies by a student in their third year. Well done, Tye!
We would also like to welcome Sarah Milligan back to
the MoEML team. Sarah’s encoding experience and sharp
editorial eye will come in handy as we tidy our site content in the run up to
the launch of our newly designed website. It’s good to have you back, Sarah!
4 November 2013
Meredith Holmes joins Stow encoding team
MoEML would like to welcome research assistant Meredith Holmes (no relation to Martin Holmes, our lead programmer) to the team. She joins senior
encoder, Nathan Phillips, as part of the Stow encoding team, and has already been doing good
work tracking down biographical details of the many and often obscure people
mentioned in Stow’s The Survey of
London.
Meredith hails from Edmonton where she completed a BA in English at Concordia University College of
Alberta. Due to her interests in medieval and early modern literature
and history, she has decided on a MENS (Medieval and
Early Modern Studies) concentration for her MA here at UVic. In her spare time, Meredith plays
classical piano and trombone, scrapbooks, and paints porcelain. A lesser known
fact about Meredith: back at home, she’s got her own kiln in her basement!
Welcome to the team, Meredith.
24 October 2013
Radical Truths and Updates
Over two months without a news post attests to a radical truth: we at MoEML have
been busy. With the new season have come many changes, including the planned
launch of our new and improved website, updated content, and a personnel
shift.
We’ve sadly sent our talented team members Quinn
MacDonald, Telka Duxbury, Sarah Milligan, and Patrick
Close into free agency (Quinn, Telka, and Sarah were quickly snapped
up by our partner project, the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and Patrick by the Maker Lab), and have brought in a ringer
from Concordia: Meredith Holmes. We wish our
departed members the best of luck on their research, and thank them for the
top-shelf work that they all contributed to MoEML. Our new lean and mean team of
researchers and encoders is comprised of Zaqir
Virani, Nathan Phillips, Tye Landels, and Meredith.
We move forward this fall with the achievement of some important project
milestones. We will see our new and improved MoEML website launched, offering
improved navigability and a whole new look. In addition, the Mayoral Pageant
Blitz of the summer will update our site content with a comprehensive array of
marked-up mayoral pageants, set to be released with the new site.
We’ll be sure to give you notice of our launch dates closer to the time.
26 July 2013
Farewell Cameron
MoEML bids a sad farewell to Encoder and RA Cameron Butt, who is starting an MA in Experimental Digital Media at the University of Waterloo in September. He and fellow UVic English graduate Brittany
Vis start their
cross-Canada odyssey tomorrow. Cameron came to MoEML in
May 2012, with an interest in XML. He quickly appointed himself
Copyeditor in Chief, having studied copyediting with
Susan Doyle in the UVic Professional Writing Program.
Since then, Cameron has mastered TEI, studied XSLT transformations at DHSI,
reorganized our existing documentation, written new documentation, been
instrumental in developing the forthcoming new look and structure of our
project, and helped with project management. One of his final responsibilities
has been to train the new team in TEI and to develop teaching materials for
future workshops. We’ll miss his energetic commitment to both the big
picture and the details of encoding, as well as his occasionally
vigorous challenges to MoEML practices and assumptions.
Best of luck in your future studies and projects, Cameron, from everyone at
MoEML and HCMC!
21 July 2013
1633 Stow Images
In Fall 2012, Janelle Jenstad purchased a copy of
the 1633 edition of The Survey of London, in which
playwright Anthony Munday, book collector and
antiquarian Humphrey Dyson, and others continued
and expanded Stow’s work. Acting on a tip from
MoEML Editorial Board member Brett Hirsch, Janelle purchased the folio volume from an upstate New
York bookseller who had purchased the volume from a New York collector. After a
nail-biting bidding skirmish on eBay, the volume was on its way to Victoria. The
volume shows some signs of foxing, and the front cover is missing. However, the rest of the
binding (spine and back cover) dates from the seventeenth-century. We have
donated the volume to the University of Victoria Special Collections. The volume will be
conserved by Lorraine Butler at Meadland Bindery later this year. Meanwhile, the Digitisation Unit at
UVic has scanned and processed 909 page images for us to use in our forthcoming
versioned edition of the 1598, 1603, 1618, and 1633 Survey. We’re grateful to Kathy Mercer and her team for their
excellent work!
There are two printings of The Survey dated 1633. Only
the one with the title page listing Elizabeth Purslowe as the printer was
actually printed in 1633 (STC
23345). A later edition, falsely dated 1633 but probably dating from
some time between 1640 and 1657 (when bookseller Nicholas Bourne died), does not
list the printer’s name on the title page (STC 23345.5 / Wing S5773A). As you can see from the title page below,
we have secured the 1633 printing.
19 July 2013
DH2013 Redux
Janelle Jenstad and Martin
Holmes give a second paper at DH2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Read the slightly out-of-date abstract for
Encoding Historical Dates Correctly: Is it Practical and Is
It Worth It? Our slides are posted at SlideShare. Our supportive listeners seem to agree that it is indeed
practical and worthwhile to encode historical dates using all the capacities of
the Text Encoding Initiative.
Our co-authors are Nathan Phillips, Sarah Milligan, and Cameron
Butt. Although Nathan and Sarah are not listed in the program, they
made major contributions to our work on encoding dates in Stow in the months
between the acceptance of our abstract and our presentation of the paper. Thanks
for your commitment to telling the truth in encoding
historical dates!
17 July 2013
DH2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska
Janelle Jenstad and Martin
Holmes give a paper at DH2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Read the slightly out-of-date abstract for
Practical Interoperability: The Map of
Early Modern London and the Internet
Shakespeare Editions. Our slides are posted at SlideShare.
MoEML is proud to be the test case for Martin’s API,
which was inspired in part by our quest to discover how other projects were
using the TEI to encode historical dates. Since encoding is a critical practice
involving many global and local decisions about the nature of a text, projects
need to be able to cite other’s tagging practices to contextualize and justify
their own encoding practices. This API, running on our project and other
projects, would increase by many orders of magnitude the number of examples
available for study, comparison, and citation. If you want to know how, how
often, and in what context MoEML uses any TEI element,
attribute, or attribute value, search the CodeSharing service running on MoEML. We
ourselves also find the service helpful in training our RAs and in searching for
(and correcting) lingering bits of legacy code. In conjunction with project
documentation, this tool is a powerful help in achieving high encoding standards
across a large project.
Abstract for Martin’s paper at Oxford:
Although the TEI Guidelines are full of helpful examples, and other
initiatives such as TEI By
Example have made great progress in providing more access to
samples of text-encoding to help beginners get started, there is no doubt
that one of the biggest obstacles to encoders at many levels is finding out
how other scholars and projects have chosen to encode a particular feature
or use a specific tag or attribute. Many projects now share their XML code,
but that in itself is only marginally helpful; it can take substantial time
to sift through the XML code in a large project to find what you’re looking
for. At the same time, many other projects do not provide any access to
their XML encoding. This talk presents a simple specification for an
Application Programming Interface, along with a sample implementation
written in XQuery and designed for the eXist XML database, providing
straightforward access both for applications and end-users to sample code
from any TEI project. The API is modelled on the Open
Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a
mechanism designed to allow archival search tools to ingest metadata from
repositories.
Click here to read Martin’s
documentation for The CodeSharing Protocol for TEI
Markup Version 1.0.
8 July 2013 MoEML at the Folger for EMDA
Assistant Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander begins
a three-week intensive NEH Institute Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,
D.C. Kim joins 19 other scholars for advanced studies in Early Modern Digital
Agendas, under the direction of Professor Jonathan Hope.
5 July 2013
Lead Mouse Away and Cool Cats Play
The team wonders how they’ll cope without their lead programmer, Martin Holmes, who is travelling to Oxford and
Lincoln, NE, to deliver various conference papers. Janelle hosts the MoEML summer barbecue, featuring the musical stylings of
Zaqir Virani and the London Stones.
11 June 2013
Team Talent
At the weekly team meeting, Nathan Phillips delivers
a brilliant presentation about Stow’s conventions for referring to places.
Another collaborative conference paper is born. Later, Tye
Landels wows everyone with an ingenious tool that pulls data from
spreadsheets and plugs them into perfectly encoded Personography entries.
10 June 2013
1618 Stow Comes to Victoria
Janelle Jenstad acquires a copy of the 1618 Survey on loan from an anonymous book collector, who has
agreed to have it digitized at MoEML.
29 May 2013
Under Construction
Encoder Cameron Butt starts building the
infrastructure of MoEML’s digital facsimile edition of
the 1633 Survey.
29 May 2013
Personography Progress
After lengthy debate, we decided to deprecate "fict" and "myth"
as values for the @type attribute we use to distinguish types of
people in our Personography. We’ve merged mythical and fictional people into
what we’ll now call literary figures. From now on, we’ll tag allegorical,
mythological, biblical, and dramatic characters in PERS1.xml with:
<persName type="lit"> <!-- Personography entry here --> </persName>
One of the challenges of building a prosopography is
developing an ontology of meaningful categories that are granular enough to
allow for the distinctions one might wish to query yet not so granular that an
item falls into more than one category. An additional challenge for us is that
our prosopography (unlike that of most other projects) includes
real people and literary characters. Over the years, we’ve had many amusing
debates about whether a character in a mayoral show or play should be
categorized as mythical, allegorical, or biblical. But the literary critics who
use our texts will make those highly interpretive decisions if they want to.
Meanwhile, we will introduce some new @type values to create further
distinctions between various types of historical people.
23 May 2013
Our First Look at the 1598 Stow
Encoder Nathan Phillips uploads a preliminary
version of Stow’s 1598 Survey. After nearly nine months
of transcribing and tagging, Nathan is understandably pleased to see what the
XML file looks like when processed and rendered on-screen. The new edition is
another step closer to its completion!
22 May 2013
Midsummer Mayoral Madness
The MoEML team launches its Mayoral
Blitz, a summer-long pageant encoding frenzy designed to
regularize existing pageant transcriptions in addition to adding new ones.
2 May 2013
Early Modern Boot Camp
MoEML hosts an open TEI workshop as part of the training
program for the new recruits. Janelle shows Tye, Quinn, and Patrick Stow’s
Annales of England.
29 April 2013
Summer Roll/Role Call
Kim McLean-Fiander (MoEML Research Fellow) and Janelle Jenstad (Project Director) are very pleased
with the team we’ve hired for Summer 2013.
Cameron Butt continues on as Chief Encoder until the
end of July. He’ll be training Tye Landels as his
long-term replacement.
Nathan Phillips becomes our senior Graduate Research
Assistant, continuing his work on John Stow’s
A Survey of London and training Patrick Close in the dark arts of encoding
antiquarian texts.
Zaqir Virani and Quinn
MacDonald will work on the mayoral pageants and other library texts,
as well as managing our social media. Zaqir will also be working with the HCMC’s Greg
Newton to move our map platform into OpenLayers.
Telka Duxbury will be uploading the digital images
of our 1633 The Survey of London into our database and
adding the metadata for each page.
Sarah Milligan, who just finished the last page of
her part of Stow (congrats!), will be undertaking some rare book research for us
at the Folger Shakespeare Library in July.
Welcome (back) everyone! We’re excited about working with you in the next phase
of MoEML’s development.
19 April 2013
When Maps Collide
MoEML joins forces with the Eletronic Textual Cultures
Laboratory (ETCL) to host UVic’s
inaugural Digital Geohumanities Working Group Symposium. MoEML research assistants Cameron Butt
and Michael Stevens both presentat alongside Greg Newton and Laurel
Bowman of the Myths on Maps project.
28 June 2012
Application Invitation
MoEML invites applications for a post-doctoral
fellowship. Click here for details.
Closing date: 2012-07-17.
24 May 2012
Draper, Mayor, and SSHRC CGS Scholar
Another new biographical entry! We’ve just published Serina Patterson’s
biographical essay, Simon Eyre (Draper
and Mayor).Serina was an MA
student at UVic in 2008. She is now a SSHRC CGS Doctoral Fellow at the
University of British Columbia. Thanks for contributing, Serina!
18 May 2012
Representations of Paisley
New biographical entry! We’re happy to announce the publication of Paisley Mann’s essay on Isabella Whitney. Paisley was an MA student in a course on
Representations of London in 2008. She is now pursuing doctoral studies at the
University of British Columbia. Thanks for your contribution, Paisley!
7 May 2012
Come On In, Cameron
Cameron Butt, BA Honours student in English
(University of Victoria), joins MoEML as an Encoder for
Summer 2012.
7 May 2012
Starting With Sarah
Sarah Milligan, MA student in English (University of
Victoria), joins MoEML as a Graduate Research Assistant
for Summer 2012.
4 May 2012
Even Stevens
Michael Stevens, MA student in English (University
of Victoria), joins MoEML as a Graduate Research
Assistant for Summer 2012.
3 May 2012
SSHRC Bounty
Wonderful news! We’ve received a large SSHRC Insight Grant for four years of
funding. We’ll be able to hire a post-doc and a number of graduate and
undergraduate research assistants, who will work to complete a new edition of
the map, a complete edition of Stow’s Survey of London,
a geo-edition of the mayoral shows, a rich library of literary texts, and many
more encyclopedia pages. Janelle Jenstad is the
Principal Investigator. Martin Holmes and Stewart Arneil of the HCMC are Co-Applicants on the grant. We
are making our proposal Summary and Expected Outcomes publicly available here.
13 May 2011
Slippy Map
Back by popular demand! We’ve re-activated all the links to the experimental
google-style zoom-able layered map, which offers much better
resolution than the grid map. We are slowly
importing the data from the grid map to the layered map. Please check all site
identifications on the grid map.
References
Citation
Bell, Walter George. Fleet Street in Seven Centuries: Being a History of the Growth of London Beyond the
Walls into the Western Liberty, and of Fleet Street to Our Time. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1912. Internet Archive. Open.
Berry, Herbert. Aspects of the Design and Use of the First Public Playhouse.The First Public Playhouse: The Theatre in Shoreditch 1576-1598. Ed. Herbert Berry. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1979. 29-46.
Harington, Sir John. A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax. London: Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriars, 1596. Rpt. Early English Books Online. Web.
Hollar, Wenceslaus. Plate 3: Extract from map by Hollar, c.1658.St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pt 1: Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Ed. W. Edward Riley and Sir Laurence Gomme. Survey of London. Vol. 3, London: London County Council, 1912. 3. Reprint. British
History Online. Open.
Jenstad, Janelle, Kim McLean-Fiander, Joey Takeda, Cameron Butt, and Katie Tanigawa. News Briefs.The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/news.htm.
Chicago citation
Jenstad, Janelle, Kim McLean-Fiander, Joey Takeda, Cameron Butt, and Katie Tanigawa. News Briefs.The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/news.htm.
APA citation
Jenstad, J., McLean-Fiander, K., Takeda, J., Butt, C., & Tanigawa, K. 2018. News Briefs. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/news.htm.
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Emma Katherine Atwood is an assistant professor of English at the University of Montevallo,
focusing on Renaissance and early modern British studies. At the time of her essay
on Arundel House, Emma was a doctoral candidate at Boston College. Her dissertation is titled Domestic Architecture on the English Renaissance Stage. Emma’s articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, and This Rough Magic. Emma has presented her work for the Northeast Modern Language Association, the Massachusetts
Center for Renaissance Studies, the International Marlowe Society Conference, and
the Association for Theater in Higher Education, among others. Her research has been
funded in part by Alpha Lambda Delta. In 2013, Emma was recognized with a Carter Manny Citation of Special Recognition from the Graham Foundation for Advanced
Studies in the Fine Arts, an award that recognizes interdisciplinary dissertations in architecture.
Research Assistant, 2018 to present. Chris Horne is a third-year student in the Department
of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests include American
modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Roles played in the project
Compiler
Copy Editor
Encoder
Chris Horne is mentioned in the following documents:
Research Assistant, 2018 to present. Kate LeBere is a honours student in the Department
of History at the University of Victoria. Her areas of focus are 16th and 17th century
Britain, and 20th century Canada.
Research Assistant, 2018 to present. Carly is a MA candidate in the Department of
English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests include early
modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She has a special interest
in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage
violence.
Roles played in the project
Encoder
Researcher
Carly Cumpstone is mentioned in the following documents:
Kristen Abbott Bennett is a MoEML pedagogical partner and module mentor. She earned her PhD. at Tufts University in 2013 and teaches English
and Interdisciplinary Studies course at Stonehill College. In addition to her contributions to MoEML as a guest editor, Ms.Bennet is the editor
of Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640), and has published articles on digital pedagogy, Nashe, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and
other topics. She is on the scholarly advisory committee for the Folger Shakespeare
Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama project, and on the editorial board of This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching
of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Roles played in the project
Guest Editor
Kristen A. Bennett is mentioned in the following documents:
Encoder, research assistant, and copy editor, 2012–13. Cameron completed his undergraduate
honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French
and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and
the geohumanities.
Undergraduate research assistant and encoder, 2013. Patrick was a fourth-year honours
English student at the University of Victoria. His research interests include media
archaeology, culture studies, and humanities (physical) computing. He was the editor-in-chief
of The Warren Undergraduate Review in 2013.
Roles played in the project
Date Encoder
Encoder
Formeworke Encoder
MoEML Transcriber
Toponymist
Patrick Close is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Research assistant, 2014 to present. Catriona is an MA candidate at the University
of Victoria. Her primary research interests include medieval and early modern Literature
with a focus on book history, spatial humanities, and technology.
Christopher Foley received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
in December 2015. His research interests include Renaissance drama, urban ecology,
and civic management initiatives in early modern London. He has also worked on a number
of digital humanities projects housed in the UCSB English Department, including the English Broadside Ballad Archive, the Early Modern British Theatre: Access initiative, and the Early Modern Center’s
online publishing platform:the EMC Imprint.
Research Assistant, 2013-14. Meredith hails from Edmonton where she completed a BA
in English at Concordia University College of Alberta. She is doing an MA in Medieval
and Early Modern Studies at the University of Victoria. In her spare time, Meredith
plays classical piano and trombone, scrapbooks, and paints porcelain. A lesser known
fact about Meredith: back at home, she has her own kiln in her basement!
Roles played in the project
Date Encoder
Formeworke Encoder
Name Encoder
Researcher
Toponymist
Meredith Holmes is mentioned in the following documents:
Research assistant, 2016, 2017-2018. Brooke Isherwood is an MA student in the Department
of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern
Literature. She has a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works
from the Renaissance.
Roles played in the project
Compiler
Encoder
Researcher
Transcription Proofreader
Brooke Isherwood is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Janelle Jenstad, associate professor in the department of English at the University
of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London. She is also the assistant coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival,
the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Her articles have appeared
in the 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 Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from
Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She is currently working on an edition of The Merchant of Venice for ISE and Broadview P. She lectures regularly on London studies, digital humanities, and
on Shakespeare in performance.
Mark Kaethler, full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, Alberta),
is the assistant project director of mayoral shows for the Map of Early Modern London
(MoEML). Mark received his PhD from the University of Guelph in 2016; his dissertation
focused on Jacobean politics and irony in the works of Thomas Middleton, including
Middleton’s mayoral show The Triumphs of Truth. His work on politics and civic pageantry has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals
Upstart and This Rough Magic, and he is currently finishing work on Thomas Dekker’s lord mayor’s show London’s Tempe for MoEML. He is the co-editor with Janelle Jenstad and Jennifer Roberts-Smith of a forthcoming volume of essays entitled Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2017) and is co-authoring a piece on creating the digital anthology of
mayoral shows with Jenstad for a forthcoming collection of essays on early modern civic pageantry. The mayoral
shows project affords Mark the opportunity to share his research skills in governance,
civic communities, urban navigation, bibliographical studies, and the digital humanities
with MoEML.
Roles played in the project
Assistant Project Director, Mayoral Shows
Second Transcriber
Mark Kaethler is mentioned in the following documents:
Research assistant, 2013-15, and data manager, 2015 to present. Tye completed his
undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Undergraduate research assistant and encoder, 2013. Quinn is a fourth-year honours
English student at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest include postcolonial
theory and texts, urban agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and
roller derby. She is the director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden magazine.
Roles played in the project
Encoder
First Markup Editor
Markup Editor
MoEML Transcriber
Researcher
Toponymist
Transcriber
Quinn MacDonald is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008. Paisley Mann completed her MA
at the University of Victoria and went on to doctoral work at the University of British
Columbia. Her work on Thomas Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not MeYou Know Nobody began with a term paper on the play’s portrayal of illicit French sexuality, a topic
she has also researched for the website Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama. This topic interests her, although she specializes in Victorian literature, because
she frequently works on how Victorian literature portrays France and French culture.
She is also a contributor for Routledge’s online database Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present; Associate Project Director, 2015–present;
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.
Encoder and research assistant, 2014-15. Katie McKenna is a third-year English literature
major at the University of Victoria with an interest in the digital humanities, particularly
digital preservation and typography. Other research interests include philosophy,
political theory, and gender studies.
At the time of her contribution to MoEML, Serina Pattersonwas an MA student in English at the University of Victoria. She
is now a PhD student at the University of British Columbia with research interests
in late medieval literature, game studies, and digital humanities. She is also the
recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada CGS Joseph-Bombardier
Scholarship and a four-year fellowship at UBC for her work in Middle English and Middle
French game poems. She has published articles in New Knowledge Environments and LIBER Quarterly—The Journal of European Research Libraries on implementing an online library system for digital-age youth. She also has a forthcoming
article in Studies in Philology and a chapter on casual games and medievalism in a contributed volume published by
Routledge. She is currently editing a forthcoming contributed volume titled Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature for the Palgrave series, The New Middle Ages. In addition to her academic work, Serina
is a web developer for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and owner of her own web design studio, Sprightly Innovations.
Graduate Research Assistant, 2012-14. Nathan Phillips completed his MA at the University
of Victoria specializing in medieval and early modern studies in April 2014. His research
focuses on seventeenth-century non-dramatic literature, intellectual history, and
the intersection of religion and politics. Additionally, Nathan is interested in textual
studies, early-Tudor drama, and the editorial questions one can ask of all sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century texts in the twisted mire of 400 years of editorial practice.
Nathan is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Brown University.
Graduate research assistant, 2012-13. Michael Stevens began his MA at Trinity College
Dublin and then transferred to the University of Victoria, where he completed it in
early 2013. His research focuses on transnational modernism and geospatial considerations
of literature. He prepared a digital map of James Joyce’s Ulysses for his MA project. Michael is a talented photographer and is responsible for taking
most of the MoEML team photographs appearing on this site.
Programmer, 2018-present; Junior Programmer, 2015 to 2017; Research Assistant, 2014
to 2017. Joey Takeda is an MA 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 include diasporic and indigenous Canadian
and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Katie Tanigawa is a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation
focuses on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional
research interests include geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities
approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.
Research Assistant, 2017. Chase Templet is a graduate student at the University of
Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He is specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.
Roles played in the project
Compiler
Encoder
Researcher
Chase Templet is mentioned in the following documents:
Scott A. Trudell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland,
College Park, where his research and teaching focus on early modern literature, media
theory and music. In addition to his current book project about song and mediation
from Sidney and Shakespeare to Jonson and Milton, he has research interests in gender
studies, digital humanities, pageantry and itinerant theatricality. His work has been
published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in Philology and edited collections. See Trudell’s profile at the University of Maryland and his professional website.
Graduate Research Assistant, 2013-14. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University
of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012,
and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research
focuses on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel
Beckett.
Student contributor enrolled in English 362: Popular Literature in the Renaissance at the University of Victoria in the Spring 2016 session, working under the guest
editorship of Janelle Jenstad. Encoder and Research Assistant, April 2016 and March-April 2017.
Jackie Watson completed her PhD at Birkbeck College, London, in 2015, with a thesis looking at
the life of the Jacobean courtier, Sir Thomas Overbury, and examining the representations
of courtiership on stage between 1599 and 1613. She is co-editor of The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558–1660 (Manchester UP, 2015), to which she contributed a chapter on the deceptive nature
of sight. Recent published articles have looked at the early modern Inns of Court
and at Innsmen as segments of playhouse audiences. She is currently working on a monograph
with a focus on Overbury’s letters, courtiership and the Jacobean playhouse.
Ian W. Archer has, since 1991, been associate professor of history at Keble College, Oxford. He
is the author of numerous books and articles on early modern London, including The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (1991) and The History of the Haberdashers’ Company (1991). He has written several essays on Stow’s Survey of London and was one of the directors of the Holinshed Project, which produced a parallel text electronic edition of the two versions of Holinshed’s
Chronicles; with Paulina Kewes and Felicity Heal, he co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed’s Chronicles (2013). Most recently he has edited (with Derek Keene) a less well known perambulation
of London by L. Grenade, The Singularities of London, 1578 (London Topographical Society, 2014). Other publications relate to poverty, popular
politics, taxation, theatre regulation, and civic pageantry in early modern London.
Ian Archer is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Julia Merritt is associate professor of early modern British history at the University of Nottingham
and co-convenes the Medieval and Tudor London seminar, held at London’s Institute
of Historical Research. She has published extensively on the social, religious and
political history of early modern London and her books include Westminster 1640-1660: A Royal City in a Time of Revolution (2013); The Social World of Early Modern Westminster: Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640 (2005) and Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to
Strype 1598-1720 (ed., 2001). Her articles have investigated topics such as church-building , parochial
politics and the later refashionings of Stow’s Survey, the last of which emerged from her 2007 Leverhulme-funded online version of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London. Her current interests include space, politics and urban identity, London’s religious
cultures, and the neighbourhood of the early Stuart royal court.
Julia Merritt is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
David Bergeron is Professor Emeritus of The University of Kansas. His landmark study
English Civic Pageantry (1971, revised in 2003) established his position as an authority on civic pageants,
including mayoral shows. His work has regularly returned to this topic, but his scholarly
focus has covered Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights, the Stuart royal family,
and systems of patronage, especially of early modern drama, as well.
David Bergeron is mentioned in the following documents:
Anne Lancashire is the author of London Civic Theatre: Civic Drama and Pageantry from
Roman Times to 1558 (2002), and editor of the 3-volume London Civic Theatre (2015), a
Records of Early English Drama publication of transcribed and edited manuscript records
of city-sponsored
theatrical and musical activities in London from the 13th century to 1558, with a
187-
page analytical introduction and 9 appendices. She has written the entry on London
street theatre
in OUP’s Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, and the entry on civic pageantry in the Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, and has published numerous articles on
pageantry and on drama in London in both the medieval and early modern periods. Now
Professor Emerita of English, Drama, and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto,
she is
currently expanding, up to 2018, her open-access researched and referenced database
of mayors
and sheriffs of London (http://masl.library.utoronto.ca), which originally ran from 1190 to 1558
and at present (2018) has an endpoint of 1860. Other publications include editions
of three early
modern plays, and articles on the Star Wars films. Anne Lancashire is currently a member of the following academic research groups:
Advisory Board of the Internet Shakespeare Editions
Editorial Board of Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
Dominic was born and brought up in London. He studied architecture at Cambridge before
returning to London for postgraduate study at UCL. He practiced as an architect on
a variety of public and private buildings including the award-winning Queen’s Stand
at Epsom Racecourse and the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Meiringen, Switzerland.
He became Pageantmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show in 1992 and has held the post longer
than anyone since it was first described in 1531. For the 800th Anniversary of the
Show in 2015 he edited Lord Mayor’s Show; 800 years 1215-2015, published by Third Millenium Publishing. He has been closely involved in major London
events including The Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. He has been a Member of the Cultural
Strategy Partnership for London.
He has held the leading roles of London Film Commissioner and Executive Director of
the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. He has worked on the London Marathon and a series
of significant commemorative events beginning with the VJ Day fiftieth anniversary
commemorations. He was the Director of the Royal Society’s 350th Anniversary Programme
where he worked closely with many London museums and galleries. Following the programme,
the Royal Society received the 2011 Prince of Asturias award, the jury highlighting
the multidisciplinary nature of the institution, in which the links between science,
humanities and politics are made evident.
Dominic was appointed OBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours List for services to the
City of London and The Queen’s Golden Jubilee. He is one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners
of Lieutenancy for the City of London, Sergeant-at-Mace of the Royal Society, and
Honorary Colonel of City of London and NE Sector, Army Cadet Force.
Dominic Reid is mentioned in the following documents:
Laura was one of MoEML’s earliest contributors, having participated in Janelle Jenstad’s undergraduate course, English 328: Drama of the English Renaissance, at the University of Windsor in 2003.
J. Caitlin Finlayson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research focuses on Thomas Heywood, print culture, the socio-political and aesthetic aspects of Early Modern pageantry
and entertainments, and adaptations of Shakespeare. She has published on the London Lord Mayor’s Shows and recently edited mayoral shows by John Squire and by John Taylor for the Malone
Society’s Collections series (2015). She is presently editing (with Amrita Sen) a collection on Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London for Taylor &Francis.
J. Caitlin Finlayson is mentioned in the following documents:
Dr. Brett D. Hirsch is university postdoctoral research fellow in medieval and early modern studies at
the University of Western Australia. He is coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance
Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and vice president of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA).
His research interests include early modern English drama, literary and cultural history,
digital humanities, and critical editing, and he has published articles in these areas
in The Ben Jonson Journal, Early Modern Literary Studies, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, and Parergon. He is currently working on an electronic critical edition of Fair Em and a monograph study of animal narratives in Shakespeare’s England.
Brett D. Hirsch is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Diane K. Jakacki is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Bucknell University. Her research interests include digital humanities applications for early modern
drama, literature and popular culture, and digital pedagogy theory and praxis. Her
current research focuses on sixteenth-century English touring theatre troupes. At
Bucknell she collaborates with faculty and students on several regional digital/public
humanities projects within Pennsylvania. Publications include a digital edition of
King Henry VIII or All is True, essays on A Game at Chess and The Spanish Tragedy and research projects associated with the Map of Early Modern London and the Records of Early English Drama. She is an Assistant Director of and instructor at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, serves on the digital advisory boards for the Map of Early Modern London, Internet Shakespeare Editions, Records of Early English Drama and the Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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Diane Jakacki is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Kevin A. Quarmby is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner and a member of MoEML’s Editorial Board. He is Assistant Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University. He is author of The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Ashgate, 2012), shortlisted for the Globe Theatre Book Award 2014. He has published numerous articles on Shakespeare and performance in scholarly journals,
with invited chapters in Women Making Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2013), Shakespeare Beyond English (Cambridge, 2013), and Macbeth: The State of Play (Bloomsbury, 2014). Quarmby’s interest in the political, social and cultural impact of the theatrical
text is informed by thirty-five years as a professional actor. He is editor of Henry VI, Part 1 for Internet Shakespeare Editions, Davenant’s Cruel Brother for Digital Renaissance Editions and co-editor with Brett Hirsch of the anonymous Fair Em, also for DRE.
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Guest Editor
Kevin A. Quarmby is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Courtney Erin Thomas is an Edmonton-based historian of early modern Britain and Europe.
She received her PhD in history and renaissance studies from Yale University (2012)
and has previously taught at Yale and MacEwan University. Her work has appeared in
several scholarly journals and on the websites Aeon and Executed Today, and her monograph If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself: Honour Among the Early Modern English Elite was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2017.
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC)
who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant
for 2012–16.
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Programmer
Stewart Arneil is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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.
MoEML Research Affiliate. Research assistant, 2012-14. Sarah Milligan completed her MA
at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett
Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She has also worked with the Internet Shakespeare Editions and with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network, compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.
Dr. Laurel Bowman’s area of interest lies specifically in Greek tragedy, a genre she
says has inspired countless other works of literature, right up to modern day film
and television.
Dr. Bowman persistently highlights the roles of women in these texts, or lack thereof,
the construction of gender, and the significance of that construction in any text
she looks at.
Some of her research focuses on a recent translation of Homer’s The Iliad by poet Alice Oswald. The poem concentrates only on the death scenes and the similes.
Dr. Bowman argues that the translation highlights the depths of human sacrifice, torment,
and loss suffered by the foot soldiers, their families. and their communities as a
result of the Trojan War.
Another research project focuses on the myth of the sacrificial virgin and its presence
in pop culture, specifically the works of writer/director Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.
She brings her research on Antigone or Electra into the classroom, where her enthusiasm for the subject matter is palpable.
Laurel Bowman is mentioned in the following documents:
Jillian Player was born in south India and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has resided
in Victoria, British Columbia since 1987. She has been creating art all her life and
completed her formal art education in 2010 with a Post-Diploma in Fine Arts, with
a focus in painting and video installation, from the Vancouver Island School of Art.
She works with MoEML as a consultant artist, drawing in missing sections of the Agas map. Her portfolio
can be found here.
Jillian Player is mentioned in the following documents:
Tom Bishop is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. He is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he teaches in the English and Drama programmes. He is the author
of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (Cambridge, 1996), the translator of Ovid’s Amores (Carcanet, 2003), and a general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, an annual volume of scholarly essays published by Ashgate Press. He has published
articles on Elizabethan music, Shakespeare, Jonson, Australian literature, and other
topics, co-produced a full-scale production of Ben Jonson’s Oberon, the Fairy Prince, and sits on the board of the Summer Shakespeare Trust at the University of Auckland. He is currently working on a project entitled Shakespeare’s Theatre Games.
Jennifer Drouin is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Assistant Professor of English in the Hudson Strode Program
in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Her monograph, Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2014. She has also published essays
in Theatre Research in Canada, Borrowers and Lenders, Shakespeare Re-Dressed, Native Shakespeares, Queer Renaissance Historiography, Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth, Shakespeare on Screen: Othello, and on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project site. Her previous digital humanities work includes the SSHRC-MCRI-funded Making Publics project website. In collaboration with the Internet Shakespeare Editions, she is currently working on a bilingual critical anthology and database called Shakespeare au/in Québec (SQ), which aims to produce TEI critical editions of 35 Québécois adaptations of
Shakespeare written since the Quiet Revolution.
Briony Frost is an Education and Scholarship Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. Her teaching and research fields include: Renaissance literature, especially drama;
Elizabethan and Jacobean succession literature; witchcraft; publics; memory and forgetting;
and soundscapes. Her M.A. Renaissance Literature class (Country, City and Court: Renaissance
Literature, 1558-1618) will prepare encyclopedia entries on many of the sites (numbered
1-12) on The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage.
Peter C. Herman is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. He is Professor of English Literature at San Diego State University. His most recent books include, The New Milton Criticism, co-edited with Elizabeth Sauer (Cambridge UP, 20012), A Short History of Early Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (Cornell UP, 2010). His current projects include a teaching edition of Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury and a book on the literature of terrorism. In Spring 2014, he is teaching a research
seminar on Shakespeare that will collectively produce the article on Blackfriars Theatre for the Map of Early Modern London.
Sarah Hogan is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wake Forest University. Her work has appeared in JMEMS, JEMCS, and Upstart, and she is currently at work on a book-length project, Island Worlds and Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, Empire (1516-1660). Her class on sixteenth-century British literature will be composing an entry on
Ludgate.
Sujata Iyengar is Professor of English at the University of Georgia (UGA). Her books include Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in the Early Modern Period (U of Penn Press, 2005, author), Shakespeare’s Medical Language (Arden/ Bloomsbury, 2011, author) and Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (Routledge, 2015, editor). Her teaching honours at UGA include the Special Sandy
Beaver Award for Excellence in Teaching and fellowships from the Office of Service-Learning
and the Office of Online Learning. She has also team-taught with two different Study
Abroad programs at UGA, with the UGA/Augusta University Medical Partnership, and with
individual faculty from the College of Public Health, the Department of History, the
Lamar Dodd School of Art, and the Grady College of Journalism. Read her faculty homepage at UGA for additional information.
Shannon Kelley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Fairfield University. Her teaching and research fields include Lyric Poetry, Literary Theory, Ecocriticism,
Early Modern Culture, Science Studies, and Renaissance Drama. Her class will prepare
encyclopedia entries on the gardens on the Agas map, including the Bear Garden.
Kate McPherson is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Professor of English at Utah Valley University. She is co-editor, with Kathryn Moncrief and Sarah Enloe of Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013); and with Kathryn Moncrief of two other edited collections,
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance (Ashgate, 2011) and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2008). She has published numerous articles on early modern maternity in
scholarly journals as well. An award-winning teacher, Kate is also Resident Scholar
for the Grassroots Shakespeare Company, an original practices performance troupe begun by two UVU students.
Kathryn M. Moncrief holds a Ph.D in English from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English and Theatre from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. in English and Psychology from Doane College. She is Professor and Chair of English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and is the recipient of the college’s Alumni Association
Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is co-editor, with Kathryn McPherson, of Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage and Classroom in Early Modern Drama (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013); Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction and Performance (Ashgate, 2011); and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007). She is the author of articles published in book collections and
journals, including Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood, Renaissance Quarterly and others, and is also author of Competitive Figure Skating for Girls (Rosen, 2001).
Anita Gilman Sherman is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature
at American University. She is the author of Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (2007). She has published articles on several topics, including essays on Garcilaso
de la Vega, Montaigne, Thomas Heywood, John Donne, Shakespeare and W. G. Sebald. Her
current book project is titled The Skeptical Imagination: Paradoxes of Secularization in English Literature, 1579-1681.
Donna Woodford-Gormley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. She is the author of Understanding King Lear: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. She has also published several articles on Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
in scholarly books and journals. Currently, she is writing a book on Cuban adaptations
of Shakespeare. In Fall 2014, she is teaching ENGL 422/522, Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global, and her students will produce an article on The Globe playhouse for MoEML.
Shamma Boyarin is a professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria,
with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Hebrew and Arabic) from UC Berkeley. He explores
the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages—particularly in a literary
context—and the interplay between discourses that we identify as a religious or as secular. His scholarship and teaching also look at the way current pop culture engages with
the Middle Ages and Religion- especially in the complex arena of global Heavy Metal.
Both in his work on the Middle Ages and on contemporary matters, he is influenced
by scholarly approaches that interrogate what seem like binary oppositions and hard
drawn boundaries between categories.
Shamma Boyarin is mentioned in the following documents:
Junior programmer. Tracey is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University
of Victoria. Her research focuses on Critical Technical Practice, more specifically
Algorhythmics. She is interested in how technologies communicate without humans, affecting
social and cultural environments in complex ways.
Tracey El Hajj is mentioned in the following documents:
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 Stow as high and great, 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 outside the wall.
In 1577, the Curtain, a second purpose-built London playhouse arose in Shoreditch, just north of the City of London. The Curtain, a polygonal amphitheatre, became a major venue for theatrical and other entertainments
until at least 1622 and perhaps as late as 1698. Most major playing companies, including the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the Queen’s Men, and Prince Charles’s Men, played there. It is the likely site for the premiere of Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.
The Curtain is mentioned in the following documents:
The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins
in 1276, when King Edward I gave to the Dominican order five acres of land.
Blackfriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Built in 1587 by theatre financier Philip Henslowe, the Rose was Bankside’s first open-air
amphitheatre playhouse (Egan). Its
foundation, excavated in 1989, reveals a fourteen-sided structure about 22
metres in diameter, making it smaller than other contemporary playhouses (White 302). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by
pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well,
staging works by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Dekker (Egan).
The Bear Garden was never a garden, but rather a polygonal bearbaiting arena whose exact locations
across time are not known (Mackinder and Blatherwick 18). Labelled on the Agas map as The Bearebayting, the Bear Garden would have been one of several permanent structures—wooden arenas, dog kennels, bear
pens—dedicated to the popular spectacle of bearbaiting in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
Bear Garden is mentioned in the following documents:
Beeston’s Boys was a playing company of boy actors in early modern London. The group was formed
in 1637 under a royal warrant from King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, but was colloquially known as Beeston’s Boys after actor and theatre impresario Christopher Beeston. The company lasted until the closure of the theatres in September 1642.
This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
Student contributors enrolled in English 463R: Shakespeare’s Histories and Comedies: Original Practices? at Utah Valley University in the Spring 2014 session, working under the guest editorship
of Professor Kate McPherson.
