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What if Lewis Carroll had lived in Chaucer's London? What if his Alice had been an "Alys"?
As a follow-up to the fly-through of early seventeenth-century London, I suggest the Map of Early Modern London, hosted by the University of Victoria and based on the 1560 woodcut map known as the Agas Map.
What would the streets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London looked like? What would you have seen as you walked through town? Shopfronts, vistas, church squares? How did vendors display their wares? What were the street surfaces like? Buildings? Wharves down on the river?
How did medieval individuals tell time before the atomic clock, Greenwich Mean, or even dependable mechanical clocks?
A little medieval scribal humor (and pain), embedded in a classic Xerox commercial. And you thought the printing press was a major technological innovation...
(with thanks to my 2310W students, who dredged out this wonderful gem!)
