Contains general information concerning the entire corpus, primarily concerning its division into time periods. Also contains links to pages that list the individual texts by:
Each text in the corpus is associated with a page containing information about the text such as date of composition, date of manuscript, and dialect. The pages with this information can be accessed from any of the pages listed in Sections 1 or 2 by clicking on the name of a text.For an example, see Chaucer's Parson's Tale. Abbreviations and notational conventions are explained in Text classification.