Early Polemic by Andrew Melville: The <i>Carmen Mosis</i> (1574) and the St Bartholomew's Day Massacres
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Le réformateur religieux et de l'éducation Andrew Melville (1545–1622) n'a pas écrit de traités politiques d'ampleur, et sa position intellectuelle est un des aspects les moins étudiés de son personnage. Toutefois, Melville est l'auteur d'un corpus important de poésie néo-latine. Cet article examine donc sa première publication connue, intitulée Carmen Mosis. Écrite en 1573/74, cette petite collection d'épigrammes témoigne de sa réaction au massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy—réaction qui ne serait pas connue autrement. Cette collection attaque aussi la dynastie française des Valois en tant que la cause principale du massacre. De plus, le Carmen Mosis trahit l'influence de George Buchanan et la propagande huguenote en France et à Genève sur l'esprit du jeune Melville.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".