The Virtual Paul's Cross Project and the Map of Early Modern London

The Map of Early Modern London Project has established links to the Virtual Paul's Cross Project, describing the VPCP as providing "an excellent sense of space, proportion, and acoustics in London."

Thanks to the MoEML for these kind words. We will return the favor and link to it from the VPCP website.

VPCP at the University of London Now On Line

The presentations that John Schofield and John Wall made to the Digital Humanities Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London on February 18th, 2014, are now on line, see above.

Virtual Paul's Cross Project Publications

John N Wall has published two essays on the Virtual Paul's Cross Project in recent months.

His essay "Virtual Paul’s Cross: The Experience of Public Preaching after the Reformation,”
was published in Paul’s Cross and  the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640, ed. Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2014), pp. 61 – 92.

This essay is based on Wall's paper at a conference entitled Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion, 1520 – 1640, held at McGill University in Montrealin the summer of 2012.

Wall has also published “Recovering Lost Acoustic Spaces: St. Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Churchyard in 1622.” In Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique (Proceedings of the SDH-SEMI 2012 Conference). (http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/251/310.

This essay is based on Wall's paper of the same title delivered at the Conference in the Society for the Digital Humanities in Waterloo, Canada, also in 2012.

On the Blogs -- Paul's Cross Named Editor's Choice on Digital Humanities Now, "a monumental achievement" on Humanities 21

 

In response to the recent flurry of press coverage about the Installation of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project at NC State's Hunt Library, we've gotten very generous comments from digital humanities bloggers.

These include being named an "Editors' Choice" project by the folks at Digital Humanities Now, go here:

http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2013/11/editors-choice-virtual-pauls-cross-project/

Also, Emma Baitz, blogging on the Humanities 21 blog from Australia, says the Virtual Paul's Cross

Project is "a monumental achievement by the team at NC State University" and "a centrepiece of the burgeoning discipline of the Digital Humanities."

For the full essay, go here:

https://humanities21.com.au/2013/10/looking-at-the-digital-humanities/

We also were covered in London's Guardian newspaper, go here:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/11/john-donne-virtual-reality-sermon

And in Popular Science, go here:

http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/take-computerized-look-17th-century-london

Very gratifying to receive such wide recognition and such generous comments!

Paul's Cross at the James B. Hunt Library

 

The Virtual Paul's Cross Project has been installed in the Teaching and Visualization Lab of the James B Hunt Library on NC State's Centennial Campus. 

This installation takes advantage of the technological resources installed in the Teaching and Visualization Lab, which include 10 projectors that together display a seamless 270 degree panoramic image and 21 speakers that provide an immersive surround sound experience.

The Installation was officially opened on November 5, 2013, the 391st anniversary of Donne's Gunpowder Day sermon, to the day of the month, the day of the week, and the hour of the day.

Joining us for the day were John Schofield (see above) and Matt Azevedo from the Production Team. John spoke at the Symposium we had in the afternoon, along with Tom Barrie from NC State, Anne MacNeil from UNC-Chapel Hill, and Heather Minor and Carol Symes from the University of Illinois.

For full details of the Opening Ceremonies and the Symposium Preaching, Performance, and Public Space in Medieval and Early Modern England, go here and here.

For media coverage of the Opening Ceremonies, go here and here.