Aims

Para1This anthology is one of the outputs of a grant-funded project called Walking Texts in Early Modern London. The project has a dual interest in the multiple editions of John Stow’s Survey of London, which pageant writer Anthony Munday updated in 1618. Pageant book collector Humphrey Dyson worked with Munday to deliver a fourth, much-expanded folio edition in 1633. The editions of the 1598 and 1633 Surveys published on the MoEML site and the editions of the mayoral pageant books published here allow us to identify connections across this canon of walking texts—texts that transcribe a route on the City either literally in the case of the mayoral procession or imaginatively in the case of Stow’s ward-by-ward walk through London. Via MoEML’s GIS technologies, we also plan to publish geospatial editions of the event of the show later in the project. These editions will aggregate pageants diachronically by place of performance.

Outcomes

Teachers and students will be able to teach and read the shows in classrooms.
Scholars will produce a new wave of scholarship on these occasional texts, drawing on the historical records, eyewitness accounts, and visual materials in our editions.
Geohumanists will generate new insights about place and cultural performance.

Objectives

Publish the full anthology of mayoral shows.
Prototype the edition of the event.
Break the book to create the polychronic peripatetic edition.

Deliverables

Content

Transcription guidelines (see MoMS Editorial Guidelines).
Finding aid for extant mayoral shows in libraries (in progress).
Finding aid and list of eyewitness accounts (in progress).
High-resolution digital scans of the printed books (in progress).
Images of Fishmongers’ production of Chrysanaleia (pending permission).
Transcriptions (and translations) of eyewitness accounts for selected shows (in progress).
32 semi-diplomatic transcriptions on the Map of Early Modern London site (complete; see Mayoral Shows on the MoEML site).
Critical introductions to the shows (in progress).
Transcriptions of livery company records for selected shows (in progress).
Transcriptions or scans of Malone Collections III and Collections V (pending permission).

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Mark Kaethler

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include early modern literature’s intersections with politics; digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; cognitive science; and ecocriticism.

Molly Rothwell

MoEML Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at LEMDO, Molly primarily worked on encoding the MoEML Mayoral Shows.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

MoEML Mayoral Shows (MOMS1)

The MoMS General Editors are Mark Kaethler and Janelle Jenstad. The team includes SSHRC-funded research assistants. Peer review is coordinated by the General Editors but conducted by other editors and external scholars.

Metadata

Authority title Aims
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Short title Aims
Publisher The Map of Early Modern London on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology
Source
Page written by Janelle Jenstad and Mark Kaethler
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Edition Released with MoEML Mayoral Shows 1.0
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