Research Guides: HIST 3363: Britain to 1714: Just For Fun: Paul's Cross, 1622

The Virtual Paul's Cross Project

The Virtual Paul's Cross Project is an attempt to create a virtual model of John Donne's Gunpowder sermon, preached at Paul's Cross on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 1622.

Virtual Paul's Cross Project
(North Carolina State Univ.)

Article: "The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project: Digital Modeling’s Uneasy Approximations"
By John N. Wall, Professor of English, North Carolina State University. Posted Monday, October 27, 2014, on EDUCAUSE Review Online.

This excellent article discusses in detail the problems of trying to model something about which we have very limited historical knowledge, and how the final project "produces an illusion of completeness and authenticity, obscuring the extent to which much of the model is only representationally accurate."