Allen, A.M. <i>The Locksmith Craft in Early Modern Edinburgh</i>
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Abstract
CAN$65.00.With regard to the Scottish craft guilds of the early modern period, A.M. Allen claims "detailed work on specific crafts has been severely underdeveloped."However, one cannot assert the same claim having read Allen's work, The Locksmith Craft in Early Modern Edinburgh, which produces not only a thorough examination of the lives of the men involved in the locksmith trade in early modern Edinburgh, but also a deeper illustration of the whole of Edinburgh in the period of corporatism before industrialization.A dense amount of research culminates in an achievement that reveals the world of Edinburgh locksmiths delved far beyond simple locks and keys.Moreover, Allen considers the influence of the Protestant Reformation, the power wielded by the town council over the guilds, the "flight to the suburbs" by Edinburgh Hammermen, and the craft hierarchy in his discussion of the eventual growth and leveling off of the Incorporation of Hammermen in Edinburgh from approximately 1483 until 1750.In turn, readers of Allen's work enter into the early modern world of the locksmith craft and its selectivity, skills, and services.Allen demonstrates that even the most skilled men had little guarantee of success as a burgess of the craft; in fact, not unlike other European urban centres, the Edinburgh market dictated whether or not a craftsman could even become a freeman master, as supply and demand weighed against one's freedom.Allen's reconstruction of the life of locksmith Edward
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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