CEEM subcorpora

The Corpus of Early English Medical Writing consists of three diachronic subcorpora. Each presents a representative sampling of medical writing, ranging from the strata of highest learning to practical health guides written for the general public. The composition of each corpus reflects the extralinguistic reality of medical writing during the relevant time period, realized in the increasing level of categorization of texts.

Timeline of the CEEM corpora

The three corpora are published independently, in chronological order. Note that each subcorpus has its own reference line. Information on each individual text sample can be found in the catalogue of the respective corpus.

Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT)

Time of compilation: 1995–2005 Size: 495,322 words Language: Middle and Early Modern English Number of texts/samples: 86 Period: c. 1375–1500 (with an appendix of early 14th century texts) Released: 2005 (John Benjamins, CD-ROM)

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2005. Middle English Medical Texts. Taavitsainen Irma, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen (eds.). CD-ROM. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT)

Time of compilation: 2000–2010 Size: 2 million words Language: Early Modern English Number of texts/samples: c. 450 Period: 1500–1700 Released: 2010 (John Benjamins, CD-ROM)

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2010. Early Modern English Medical Texts. Taavitsainen Irma, Päivi Pahta, Turo Hiltunen, Martti Mäkinen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr, and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.). CD-ROM. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT)

Time of compilation: 2010–2018
Size: over 2 million words
Language: Late Modern English
Number of texts/samples: 628
Period: 1700–1800
Released: 2019 (John Benjamins, CD-ROM)