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Record W2289608651 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511495694.004

Marriage, separation and the common law in England, 1540–1660

2007· book-chapter· en· W2289608651 on OpenAlexaff
Tim Stretton

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHistorical Economic and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsSaint Mary's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThouMajestyArtLawPhilosophyTheologyPolitical science

Abstract

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King : Shall I divorce them then? O be it far, That any hand on earth should dare untie, The sacred knot knit by Gods majesty; I would not for my crown disjoin their hands That are conjoined in holy nuptial bands, How sayest thou Lacy? Wouldst thou loose thy Rose? Thomas Dekker, The Shoemakers Holiday (1600) Lawrence Stone believed that from the time of the Reformation, which led to a narrowing of the grounds for annulment, until just prior to the Restoration, when private separation agreements became possible, the bonds of marriage were harder to break than at any other time in English history. Later historians have disagreed with Stone about the precise contours of marriage law and practice during these decades. R. H. Helmholz, for example, has questioned the ease with which the pre-Reformation church granted annulments, while Martin Ingram remains sceptical of Stone's assumptions about the prevalence of desertions after the Reformation. Nevertheless, few historians dispute the legal, ecclesiastical and social strength of the institution of marriage between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. Elsewhere in Europe, the Protestant reforms that removed marriage from its sacramental pedestal also ushered in the possibility of divorce, but in England divorce in the modern sense – the legal dissolution of a valid marriage allowing parties to remarry – remained unobtainable for most couples until 1857.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.433
Threshold uncertainty score0.861

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.206
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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2007
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