The Remarriage of Elite Widows in the Later Middle Ages
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although late medieval widows had considerable legal control over their own remarriages, in practice their freedom was limited by the constraints of family social strategies and, for the highly placed, by political manipulation by powerful men. Similar factors operated in many countries. The wealth and prestige which gave these women consequence also attracted men who wished to use those assets. This can be found at all levels of property and status, from widowed queens pressured by those seeking power, to widows on the margins of the aristocracy, who could be required to remarry to suit a patron. The freedom of widows to choose was almost always contingent on the greater social and political power of men. The article concludes with a case study of Maud Stanhope, Lady Willoughby.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it