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Record W1500366715 · doi:10.3138/flor.22.006

Radial Categories and the Central Romance

2005· article· en· W1500366715 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueFlorilegium · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval Literature and History
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRomanceLiteratureNarrativeMiddle EnglishAdventureOld FrenchReading (process)WonderHEROHistoryMedieval literatureEntertainmentArtPhilosophyArt historyLinguisticsVisual arts

Abstract

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Definition of medieval romance as a genre has been bedevilled by the inability of scholars to reach a consensus on the essential features of romance. “Of all the dimensions of human experience explored by the romance genre, eros is by far the most essential,” remark Kevin Brownlee and Marina Scordilis Brownlee in their introduction to an important collection of essays by various scholars on the evolution of European medieval romances. Yet eros is neither mentioned nor implied in Paul Strohm’s report of consensus: “modern critics have a fairly tidy sense of the mediaeval romance as a narrative poem dealing with the adventures of a chivalric hero.” Nor is it mentioned in Newstead’s definition in the Wells-Severs Manual of the Writings in Middle English: “The medieval romance is a narrative about knightly prowess and adventure, inverse or in prose, intended primarily for the entertainment of a listening audience.” In part this difference is accounted for by the difference in bodies of romances being read: if the Brownlees are reading Chrétien and Le Roman de la rose while Strohm and Newstead are reading Havelok and the alliterative Morte Arthure, it is no wonder that the scholars of romance languages see eros as essential and the scholars of Middle English do not. But there is a fundamental disagreement between Strohm’s and Newstead’s definitions, too: Strohm disallows prose romances, such as Malory’s Morte Darthur, while Newstead allows them.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.732
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.177
Teacher spread0.168 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it