"Life is ruled and governed by opinion":
The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts
Manual of Information

Compiled by Claudia Claridge

Contents

Preface

1. The Lampeter Corpus: Source Materials

2. The Design of the Lampeter Corpus 2.1 The Corpus Texts: Characteristics
2.2 The Decade Structure
2.3 The Domain Structure
2.4 Authorship of the Texts

3. The Coding Scheme of the Lampeter Corpus 3.1 Textual Markup 3.1.1 Text Structure
3.1.2 Titlepage Features
3.1.3 Quotations
3.1.4 Tables and Lists
3.1.5 Notes
3.1.6 Speech, Drama and Poems
3.1.7 Typographical and Layout Features
3.1.8 Editorial Interventions and Indications
3.1.9 Listing of Entity References Used
 3.2 The Headers 3.2.1 The Corpus Header
3.2.2 The Text Headers Appendix I: Texts used in the Lampeter Corpus (decade-structure ordering)

Appendix II: Alphabetical Index of Authors

Appendix III: Some Statistics

Appendix IV: Front matter material

Appendix V: Genre self-descriptions

References

preface