Avtobiograficheskie "Ia" Ot Avgustina Do Avvakuma: Ocherki Istorii Samosoznaniia Evropeiskogo Individa
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Abstract
Iurii P. Zaretskii. Avtobiograficheskie laot Avgustina do Avvakuma: Ocherkiistorii samosoznaniia evropeiskogo individu. Moskva: Institut Vseobshchei istorii RAN, 2002. 323 pp. Appendices. Bibliography.The present volume is the second monograph by Yuri Zaretskii in which he pursues the subject of autobiographic self-presentation in various cultural and national milieus of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. book comprises a collection of essays addressing three cultural traditions: Eastern Christian, Western Christian, and Jewish. These essays are united by the common theme of autobiography and self-presentation, and feature a culturological approach to textual interpretation. In a time when studies of autobiography form an interdisciplinary field of their own and comprise an integral part of the university curriculum, another book on the subject can hardly shake the field. Zaretskii's book does not. Yet it does offer interesting and innovative interpretations of a number of texts from this area.The book contains five chapters, the first of which, The Phenomenon of Medieval Autobiography, serves as a general introduction to the genre of autobiographical writings in European Middle Ages. developmental history of this genre is discussed in the context of Christian ethics of humility, and in application to figures and works of such European thinkers as St. Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Thomas Aquinas, Petrarch, Peter Abelard, Pope Pius II (the subject of another monograph by Zaretskii), Benvenuto Cellini, and the leader of the Russian Schism, Archpriest Avvakum.The second chapter turns to one of the most popular Christian hagiographies, the Legend of Alexis the Man of God, opting to interpret the act of the hero's writing of the last letter to his parents and congregation in the light of autobiography-writing. Both the composition of this chapter and textual analysis that it offers are disappointedly lacking. Not only does Zaretskii's preamble to his interpretation take up more than half of the chapter, but in the end he acknowledges his failure to answer the questions central to his discussion! issue of secret sanctity directly related to this discussion is not mentioned, even though a recent monograph by Sergei Ivanov, Vizantinskoe iurodstvo (Byzantine Foolishness in Christ, 1994) is listed in Zaretskii 's bibliography. After reading this chapter one wonders whether the scholar chose the right text for exploring autobiographical issues and whether he took the right approach to this text.The third chapter, Autobiographical Stories of the Christian West: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, comprises two parts. first part (co-authored with G. A. Brandt) offers a discussion of Teresa of Avila's Libre de la Vida (The Book of My Life). This discussion relies on several critical approaches (Derrida, Foucault) and engages a number of cultural and historical contexts, including the institution of the Inquisition, conceptual categories of heresy and sanctity, as well as socio-cultural dimensions of gender in Medieval Europe and Spain. In his close reading of St. Teresa's self-presentation, Zaretskii opts to reveal the hidden subtext, offering an engaging interpretation of this text. …
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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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".