Lifestyle and Social Behaviour of the Elite of Cyprus,<i>c</i>. 1775–1821
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is the outcome of ongoing research into the urban experience of the upper echelon of the social pyramid in Cyprus during the period of Ottoman rule. The present article focuses on a period of about fifty years, from the last quarter of the eighteenth century up to 1821, a period crucial for Cyprus. Research is based mainly on written sources, mostly unpublished manuscripts, and, to a lesser extent, on artistic representations and the few surviving related artefacts. The study explores the lifestyle and social behaviour of people who could afford to enjoy the 'value of the unnecessary' and indulge in conspicuous consumption far beyond the essentials of daily existence. These people are not representative of the society they lived in; rather, they are exceptional and their way of life reflects foreign influences in developing the highest possible standard of living. More specifically, this work attempts to reconstruct the lifestyle of the wealthy classes living on the island, through the study of different aspects of material culture. The aspects considered as key indicators of lifestyle comprise domestic architecture and household equipment, dietary habits, as well as dress and appearance in general. The subject has never before been systematically investigated in all its parameters. Taking into account that Folk life Studies, particularly in Cyprus, are as a rule concerned with the culture of ordinary people, especially in the countryside, this research offers a new approach to Cypriot folk life and highlights the need for a redefinition of the field.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".