tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951202358563462982024-03-06T12:02:26.725-08:00The Virtual St Paul's Cathedral ProjectJohn N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-57563649272046555682017-05-26T07:07:00.001-07:002017-05-26T07:09:24.044-07:00John Schofield publishes essay on St Paul's Deanery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our own John Schofield has published an essay entitled "<span class="NLM_article-title hlFld-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Reconstruction of the Deanery of St Paul's Cathedral in the Time of John Donne, and Its Setting for His Collection of Paintings," in <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03058034.2017.1289008">the <i>London Journal</i>, go here. </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="NLM_article-title hlFld-title" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As Schofield describes it, "</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This paper proposes a reconstruction of the deanery of St Paul's Cathedral at the time of the death of John Donne (Dean 1621–1631). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"The will is remarkable because it details bequests of 21 paintings, all but three specified by their location in rooms throughout the deanery. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Congratulations to John Schofield, to whom the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project is indebted in so many, many ways. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And thanks to Mary Ann Lund, our new Advisory Committee member, who pointed out this publication to me. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We can promise that Schofield's discoveries will be incorporated into the visual model we are developing for the Cathedral Project. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We welcome <a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/maryannlund">Dr. Mary Ann Lund</a>, Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Leicester, to the Advisory Committee for the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Lund brings to us her extensive knowledge of Donne's time as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral and her experience as editor of the recently published <a href="http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-12">Volume XII of the new Oxford edition of the Sermons of John Donne</a>. Volume XII includes sermons preached by Donne in St Paul's Cathedral in 1626.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Lund is also the editor of<a href="http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-13"> Volume XIII in this edition</a>, to include sermons Donne preached in St Paul's in 1626 and 1627, forthcoming from the Oxford University Press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Find more of her work on Richard III in her article <a href="http://mh.bmj.com/content/41/2/89">"Richard's Back: Death, Scoliosis, and Myth Making</a>," published in t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he <i>Journal of Medical Humanities</i> in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition, Dr. Lund is the author of<i> <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511669224">Melancholy, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'</a></i>, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Lund also knows the life and work of a cathedral from the inside out from her service, since 2016, as a lay member of the chapter of Leicester Cathedral, with particular interest in the cathedral's educational mission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are honored that Dr. Lund is joining us, and are grateful to her for her interest in the Virtual Cathedral Project.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John N. Wall, one of the Principal Investigators for the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project, delivered a paper at the recent conference on <i>Space, Place, and Image in Early Modern English Literature</i>, held at the University of Lausanne on May 11th - 13th, 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wall's paper was entitled "The Contested Pliability of Sacred Space in St Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Churchyard in Early Modern London." Wall explored ways in which changing concepts of the sacred influenced uses of space in and around St Paul's Cathedral in the years after the Elizabethan Settlement of Religion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joining Wall at this conference were other Donne scholars, including Mary Morrissey (University of Reading), Dennis Flynn (John Donne Society), Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester), Joel Salt (University of Saskatchewan), Arnaud Zimmerman (University of Notre Dame), Catherine Evans (University of Sheffield), and Peter Mitchell (University of Wales).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Under the leadership of <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Dr. Kirsten Stirling, </span>the University of Lausanne is becoming a center for Donne studies and early modern English literature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We welcome Richard Pinel, the new <a href="https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/life-jesus/chapel-and-choir"> Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge,</a> to our Production Team for the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Richard will work with Roger Bowers, his colleague at Jesus College, and with the Choir at Jesus College to choose repertoire and record the music for choir and organ we will need for our recreation of worship at St Paul's in the 1620's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Richard comes to the Cathedral Project and to Jesus College from his post as Assistant Director of Music at <a href="https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/">St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An international award-winning organist, Richard has also held leadership positions with the choirs at <a href="http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Magdalen College, Oxford</a> and <a href="http://www.perthcathedral.org/" target="_blank">Perth Cathedral</a>, Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He has also held the organ scholarship of <a href="http://www.stalbanscathedral.org/" target="_blank">St Albans Cathedral</a> and Magdalen College, Oxford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Richard began his participation in the English Choral Tradition early in life, as a chorister at <a href="http://www.allsaintsnorthampton.org.uk/" target="_blank">All Saints’ Church, Northampton</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was awarded the prestigious organ scholarship to Magdalen
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Richard's playing of the organ has been hailed as ‘a force of nature’. He has won <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">numerous</span> prizes, including First Prize, the Ad Wammes Prize, and the Haji
Hakim Prize at the <a href="http://www.orgelconcoursbreda.nl/" target="_blank">Breda International Organ Competition</a> in The Netherlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For <a href="http://www.richardpinel.co.uk/">more about Richard, including a discography of his recordings, go here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Congratulations to Richard for all his accomplishments, and many, many thanks for agreeing to help us recreate the musical life of St Paul's Cathedral in the early 17th century!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-64941346265191265942017-03-10T08:54:00.000-08:002017-03-10T08:54:03.645-08:00John Donne Society Recognizes the Virtual Paul's Cross Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://johndonnesociety.org/">John Donne Society</a> has presented the <a href="http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/">Virtual Paul's Cross Project</a> with the <a href="http://johndonnesociety.org/awards.html">John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Digital Publication</a> for 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our thanks to Heather Dubrow, President of the John Donne Society, and to all the members of the Society, for this generous recognition!</span><BR><BR>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-16699716816846665892016-09-05T10:52:00.002-07:002016-09-05T10:55:19.617-07:00The Great Fire Redux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">London burned again yesterday, only this time only in the form of a 320 foot long replica built </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for the occasion out </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of wood on the banks of the Thames. </span><br />
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Watch the London Replica burn here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the <i>Guardian</i>'s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/05/wooden-replica-of-17th-century-london-burnt-to-the-ground-on-great-fire-anniversary">version of the story, go here. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/sep/05/350th-anniversary-of-the-great-fire-of-london-finale-in-pictures">For more pictures of the event, go here. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i>Guardian</i> also has a story about major <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/30/great-fire-of-london-1666-350th-anniversary-which-buildings-disappeared">buildings that were destroyed in the Great Fire, including St Paul's, here.</a></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Given the profound impact that the Great Fire had on Wren's career as an architect, I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Wren set the Fire in Pudding Lane. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I know that's silly ta</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lk. Just joking folks, just joking . . . . .</span>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-75399284533047913852016-09-04T14:06:00.001-07:002016-09-04T14:06:20.807-07:00St Paul's and The Great Fire<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Great Fire of London reached St Paul's Cathedral 350 years ago today, on September 4th, 1666.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The photograph above, from the Evening Standard, suggests that the folks at Wren's St Paul's have been having fun projecting images of a fire onto the dome, perhaps as part of a memorial event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We proposed several years ago that the folks at the cathedral work with us to have a more elaborate exhibit on this 350th anniversary occasion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our plan would have involved projecting images of the preFire cathedral onto the facade of today's cathedral, then adding images of the fire, to conclude with today's St Paul's rising from the ashes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But we didn't get anywhere -- the cathedral's response was that they weren't sure their fire insurance would cover the risk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seems they figured out the difference between virtual and real fire, in time for the Great Fire Anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In any case, if you want a chronology of the Great Fire, please see below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And watch the VPCP website for some significant changes in the days and weeks ahead. </span></div>
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John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-28011545907103904222016-08-12T13:22:00.000-07:002016-08-12T13:22:39.630-07:00Paul's Cross on TAP<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The
Virtual Paul's Cross Project was discussed on On TAP, a podcast about
Theater and Performance Studies sponsored by the Performing Arts
Department at Washington University in St Louis. group, consisting of <a href="https://sarahbaycheng.net/">Sarah Bay-Cheng</a> of Bowdoin College, <a href="http://pad.artsci.wustl.edu/pannill_camp">Pannill Camp </a>of Washington U, and <a href="http://www.harveyyoung.net/">Harvey Young</a> of Northwestern Unnversity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ontappod/on-tap-004">Go HERE</a>
to listen to the podcast, all of which is very worthwhile, but if you
want to hear their discussion of our work, forward to the last 10
minutes or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The folks at On TAP describe this podcast as "a three-headed,
freewheeling conversation about topics of current interest to graduate
students, professors, independent scholars, and all those interested in
academic Theatre and Performance Studies. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Each edition features Sarah Bay-Cheng,
Pannill Camp, and Harvey Young talking about several topics of field-wide
interest, including trends in ideas, theories, methods, pedagogy, career
development, and developments in research, publishing, and hiring. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Something
like a cross between a casual faculty seminar and an impromptu conversation at
the conference hotel bar, On TAP features established scholars discussing a
rapidly evolving field of knowledge. It is free to download and a great way to
stay connected to the field."</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm honored that these folks have been discussing our work, especially
since I've been reminded how preaching at Paul's Cross (or anywhere, for that
matter) was a kind of theater. One reason so many clergy in the early modern
period have negative things to say about the theater of that day was, of
course, that they were all in the same line of work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For more on the <a href="http://www.ontappod.com/">folks who do this
podcast, go here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to hear our podcast from this site, we
are part of Podcast #4. </span></span><br />
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John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-14194911036784812032016-07-22T11:41:00.000-07:002016-07-25T09:05:12.706-07:00John Schofield publishes St Paul's Cathedral: Archaeology and History<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John Schofield, the Archaeologist at St Paul's Cathedral, member of our Production Team for the Virtual St Paul's Project, and author of <i>St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren </i>(2011), is now publishing a companion volume, <i>St Paul's Cathedral: Archaeology and History, </i>due out in September from Oxbow<i>. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/St-Pauls-Cathedral-archaeology-history/dp/1785702750/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468508287&sr=1-5&keywords=st+paul%27s+cathedral.">USA <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">p</span>reorders are being accepted here, from the usual source in the USA. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr Schofield's work documents the archaeological history of Wren's St Paul's, and describes as well the changes it has gone through since its initial completion in the early 18th century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While, to me, this building is important chiefly as the home for John Donne's memorial statue, Wren's St Paul's has served as the cathedral of the Diocese of London through the rise and fall of England's empire and through the crises of English history in the 20th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everyone knows the iconic image, above, of St Paul's dome rising above the smoke of bombs dropped on London during the Blitz, embodying the spirit of England's commitment to keep calm and carry on during Hitler's efforts at conquest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The publishers celebrate Schofield's work in this volume, <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">reviewing the cathedral's "history from the early 18th to the early 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological recording, documentary research and engineering assessment."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This volume is a must-have for people interested in the history of baroque architecture, the career of Sir Christopher Wren, and the cultural role of St Paul's as the iconic center of London's growth as a world capital and as the best-known building at the heart of the Church of England and the world-wide Anglican Communion. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Congratulations to John Schofield, our good friend and professional colleague, for bringing us this landmark of archaeological and architectural history. </span></span></span><br />
<br />John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-25464115500427938322016-07-13T11:54:00.000-07:002016-07-14T06:45:23.466-07:00Willard McCarty Visits Virtual Paul's Cross<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Willard McCarty, a member of our Advisory Committee<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span> Professor of Humanities Computing at King’s College
London, an<span style="font-size: small;">d </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Adjunct Professor<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in the </span>Digital Humanities Research Group, Western Sydney University, </span>joined us in R</span>aleigh for </span>several days in late June of 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">McCarty visited with <a href="http://dh.chass.ncsu.edu/">the digital humanities faculty here at NC Stat</a>e and was able to explore a number of our on-going projects on display in our <a href="https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary">Hunt Library's</a> Teaching and Visualization Lab. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">McCarty <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">also learned about our new interdisciplinary <a href="https://workthatmatters.ncsu.edu/visual-narrative/">Visual Narratives cluster project,</a> just now getting developed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">McCarty's visit was a highlight of our summer, and a reminder that we are grateful when members of our Advisory Committee can drop by for a visit. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Paul's Cross -- and soon to be Cathedral -- website gives a great deal of information about our work, but the opportunity to experience the installation at our Hunt Library is a whole 'nother experience. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 10 high definition projectors cast a seamless 270-degree image of Paul's Churchyard, and the 21 speakers immerse the viewer inside the acoustic model of the churchyard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you can come to Raleigh, this is not to be missed! We promise to roll out the red carpet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Kirsten Stirling, a Senior Lecturer in the English department of the University of Lausanne, and two of her graduate students -- Sonia Pernet and Kader N. Hegedüs --have announced the launching of a project entitled </span><i>Space, Place and Image in the Poetry and Prose of John Donne.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Virtual Paul's Cross Project</i> is now linked to this project, here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This project is sponsoring a major conference on the topic<i> Space, Place and Image in Early Modern English Literature, </i>to be held on the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">campus of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, on 11-13 May 2017.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Call for Papers for this conference is here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy to see that Mary Morrissey, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Virtual Paul's Cross Project, is already signed up to be a keynote speaker at this conference.</span>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-55192229645424949752016-06-13T15:53:00.000-07:002016-06-13T16:10:04.890-07:00Events for the 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to <a href="https://www.stpauls.co.uk/fire">the events at St Paul's Cathedral</a>, the City of London will recognize the anniversary in a variety of ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There will be a children's book about the Fire, entitled</span><span class="book-title" id="scope_book_title" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666, </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Emma Adams, James Wesston Lewis, and Fiz Osborne, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Fire-London-350th-Anniversary/dp/0750298200/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465858769&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=The+Great+Fire+of+London%3A+350th+Anniversary+of+the+Great+Fire+of+1666+%28Hardback%29+Emma+Adams%2C+James+Weston+Lewis%2C+Fiz+Osborne">available from Amazon.co.uk, here.</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t</span></span>he City of London Museum will open an interactive exhibit on July 23rd, up through April 17th, 2017, called <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/whats-on/exhibitions/fire-fire"><i>Fire! Fire!</i></a> which will include artifacts like the 17th century leather fireman's helmet shown above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">London's Guildhall will also open an exhibit on July 23rd, called <a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/guildhall-library/events-exhibitions/Pages/the-dreadful-fire.aspx"><i>The Dreadful Fire,</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which promises in addition to the usual sorts of exhibits, to include a hands-on feature, so you can touch what remains of early modern London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Heritage Gallery will open a show on August 6th, 2016, up through December 8th, 2016 <a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/Heritage-Gallery.aspx">a show featuring the Hooke Diary and other archives relating to the Great Fire. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There will also be a city-wide festival called <i>Great Fire 350</i>, running from August 30th through September 4th, 2016. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For<a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/greatfire350/events"> a guide to the events of this festival, go here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, much to see and do in London in this year both of the anniversary of Shakespeare's death AND of the Great Fire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are recreating pre-Fire St Paul's in bits and bytes. Good to be reminded that the cathedral survives in the hard reality of rock fragments excavated from the grounds of the cathedral from time to time over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The "Gentle Author" of the <a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/"><i>Spitalfields Life</i> blog</a> published <a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/19/relics-of-old-st-pauls-at-new-st-pauls/">a nice story about these remains, with lots of pictures, earlier this spring, go here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The stones gathered above, on display in the Triforium of today's St Paul's, were collected by Francis Penrose, the 19th-century archaeologist, who is important for us because he excavated and surveyed the foundations of Paul's Cross. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This collection of stones from the pre-Fire cathedral has contributed a great deal to our model. For example, stones that have been traced to the framework to the cathedral's Great East Window have helped John Schofield and his colleagues work out the design of that window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">St Paul's Cathedral has organized a series of events in observance of the 350th anniversary 0f the Great Fire of London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This series of events started this past May, and runs through April of 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The full list of events is here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you look carefully at the cathedral's page, you will see the image above, familiar to us as one of the Virtual Paul's Cross website images, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">constructed by Joshua Stephens and rendered by Jordan Gray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Events of special interest on the cathedral's calendar of Great Fire Anniversary events are the following: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The service recreates the 1666 setting with 17th century instruments and anthems. Bishop Richard, the 132nd Bishop of London, is founder and life president of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.stethelburgas.org/" style="border: 0px none; color: rgb(198, 96, 103) ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none ! important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" target="_top">St Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation</a>, created after the church was totally destroyed by an IRA bomb in Bishopsgate, London in 1993. He is a member of the House of Lords and Dean of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_Royal" style="border: 0px none; color: rgb(198, 96, 103) ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none ! important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" target="_top">Chapels Royal</a>.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All worth checking out if you are in London!</span><br />John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-25688267696547437312016-04-25T10:25:00.000-07:002016-04-25T10:25:16.470-07:00Virtual Paul's Cross at the University of Reading<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <b>Virtual Paul's Cross Projec</b>t was presented in the poster session <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">at the <b>Digital Visualization in the Humanities</b> colloquium, funded by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, held at the University of Reading, on March 31st, 2016.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">John Schofield, our authority on everything archaeological and architectural about St Paul's Cathedral in the 17th century, will publish his definitive study of Wren's cathedral from Oxbow in September 2016. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Together with his <i>St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren,</i> these two books contain the definitive account of the Diocese of London's cathedral for our time and for generations to come. <i><br /></i>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Schofield's work is of course the basis for all our claims to architectural accuracy and authenticity in both the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project and the Virtual Paul's Cross Project.</span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are all deeply grateful to Schofield for his support and assistance, and for his untiring efforts on behalf of these projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Linguist (and author of the <i>Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation</i>, forthcoming from the Oxford University Press) David Crystal and his son the actor Ben Crystal (see image below of Ben recording Donne's Gunpowder Day sermon for 1622) were recently featured in an extended conversation about Original Pronunciation on BBC Radio 4, on the Word of Mouth program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">David's recording is of the Gospel of St Matthew, in the translation of William Tyndale (see image above). Ben's is of several of the sonnets as well as of speeches and scenes from various of Shakespeare's plays. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="author notFaded" data-width="132">Ben is the voice of John Donne in original pronunciation, delivering Donne's sermon for November 5th, 1622 for the <a href="http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/">Virtual Paul's Cross Project</a>, using a script of Donne's sermon prepared by his father David. </span></span>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-84376481382953629022015-10-08T08:34:00.000-07:002015-10-08T09:59:19.126-07:00Damian Murphy Helps Create Lost Spaces in Live Performance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This project led to a live performance by members of the <a href="http://www.eborsingers.org/">Ebor Singers</a> this past September 25th, 2015 of a new composition for voice entitled <i>Archite</i><i></i><i>x</i><i></i><i>ture II</i>, by composer Ambrose Field.</span></span></div>
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of Electronics at the University of York led the real-time application
of the reconstructed acoustic, originally modeled by Stephen Oxnard and
Dr Damian Murphy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Through use of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">augmented reality acoustics, the audience gathered in the Abbey's ruins heard the composition as though it were being performed in the Abbey before it was abandoned in 1540, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This project reflects recent developments in the technology of recording because it means that </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> recordings of sounds for playback through acoustic models of lost spaces </span></span>no longer have to be made in anechoic chambers to eliminate ambient noise from the recording. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Field’s work was composed to take full advantage of the 11-second reverberation time of the original building. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can hear part of Field's composition and get a feeling for the reverberation time of the reconstructed space by going here:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can read more about the composition here:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">David Hill and I were featured in the fall 2015 issue of #creativestate, the official magazine of ARTS NC STATE, the visual and performing arts program here on campus in Raleigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Appropriate for our use of digital technology in the Virtual Paul's Cross Project, the image above is a digital construct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our schedules did not mesh when the magazine's photographers needed to make this shot, so David and I were photographed on different days, standing before projected images of the Gipkin painting of Paul's Cross. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project has been awarded a Digital Humanities Implementation Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the official announcement of the grant on the NEH's website, go here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The official story says they gave away 36+ million dollars and lists a few typical recipients (but not us).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To get the the list of the actual grants and their recipients, click on the link they provide, which takes you to a 38-page pdf, and you will find us on page 29.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There, you will learn that we have been funded to do "further work on a three-dimensional, immersive model of the visual and aural environment of St. Paul's Cathedral and Churchyard as they stood in London during the early 17th century. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The project would also further develop and publicly release open-source software for the modeling and representation of sound in historic spaces."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The news was delivered by William Adams, Chairman of the NEH, in person, during a visit to NC State University to see the Installation of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project at NC State's Hunt Library.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For a fuller account of the announcement at NC State, go here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is very exciting news, indeed!</span></span>John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-38440107166281744782015-04-03T09:15:00.000-07:002015-04-03T09:15:22.154-07:00John Schofield Speaks at St Paul's Cathedral<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Schofield, Archaeologist at St Paul's Cathedral,</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">will give a lecture at the cathedral on Saturday, the 11th of April, 2015, at 13:00 (1:00 pm), in the Wren Suite in the cathedral crypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The lecture will be entitled </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Archaeology of St Paul's Cathedral, to the Great Fire. </span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Schofield will discuss the history and archaeology of the cathedral site from Roman times, tracing the designs of the various cathedrals built on this site since 604 AD, culminating in an account of medieval St Paul's, the largest building in medieval Britain, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This talk will include Schofield's account of recent discoveries in and around the cathedral, especially new information he has found in the London Metropolitan Archives about the St Paul's Deanery, where the John Donne lived when he served as dean of the cathedral from 1621-31. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The talk is free but places are limited, so tickets are required. When you arrive, the crypt is accessible via the entrance on the north side of the cathedral, near the West Front. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In addition to being the Cathedral Archaeologist, Schofield is author of <i>St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren</i> (English Heritage, 2011), and a member of the Production Team for the award-winning<a href="http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/"> Virtual Paul's Cross Project,</a> a digital reconstruction of St Paul's Churchyard in 1622. <br /><BR>
John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-58821302022489555782015-04-02T13:24:00.001-07:002015-04-02T13:24:16.836-07:00Virtual Paul's Cross Featured on the NC State University Website<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John N Wall conducted the following professional activities in the past year, on behalf of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wall delivered a paper entitled "Reconstructing Pre-Modern Spaces: The Example of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project" at <i>Reconceiving Pre-Modern Spaces</i>, the 11th Annual Conference of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Tennessee, March 6-8, 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wall also gave a talk entitled "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Recreating the Paul's Cross Sermon at St Paul's Cathedral," at St Paul's Cathedral, London, on November 22, 2014.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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Wall's essay <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">"The Virtual Paul's Cross Project: Digital Modeling's Uneasy Approximations" was published in <i><span class="il">EDUCAUSE</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Review Online</i> (October 2014), here:</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">John N. Wall’s essay “Preaching to the Choir: Understanding Worship in an Aural Culture” was published in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Preaching and the Theological Imagination</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">, ed Zachary Guiliano and Cameron Partridge </span>(New York: Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 125-150.</span></span></span></div>
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<br />John N. Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04333838633925478900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195120235856346298.post-7453108327745992102015-04-02T13:10:00.003-07:002015-04-02T13:10:54.846-07:00Virtual Paul's Cross Reviewed in Spenser Studies<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Virtual Paul's Cross Project was reviewed by Matthew Smith in the
journal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spenser Review,</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few quotes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“While its digital reenactments offer many teaching and
research possibilities, the <i>VPCP</i>’s most significant intellectual
contribution is an argument for treating early modern sermons as events, as is
implied by its integration of text, time, and performance conditions.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“The acoustic model is . . . robust in historical detail.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“One final noteworthy contribution of the <i>VPCP </i>is its
consolidation of historical sources. . . .energizing these scarce sources is
itself a remarkable accomplishment for this project. </span>“<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are deeply grateful to Professor Smith for his thoughtful and generous review!</span><br />
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