John Foxe, <i>Acts and Monuments</i> (1563)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
About the author John Foxe (1516/17–87) left his position at Oxford University because of his Reformed views, and subsequently followed many Protestants into exile during the Marian reign. On the continent, he toiled in the book trade, establishing a community of collaborators, who supplied him with much of the documentation for Acts and Monuments . About the text Popularly known as the Book of Martyrs , this lavishly illustrated text was one of the costliest English books to produce or to purchase in the sixteenth century, amounting to 1,800 folio pages in the first edition of 1563. The excerpt below comes from this edition's prefatory matter. Foxe along with the publisher John Day oversaw the printing of the first four editions, each successive edition of which revised and expanded upon the bulk of its predecessor. Foxe is less a conventional author than a compiler, editor and contributor to the massive tome that gathers from various sources the documentary accounts and records of bloody Mary's persecution of England's Protestants. Foxe models his project after that of Eusebius, a fourth-century Bishop of Caesarea, whose Ecclesiastical History , translated into English in 1577, chronicled the Church's growth from its inception to his own time. Foxe's book, second only to the Bible in its importance to English Protestant households, had an institutional presence, for chained copies were installed throughout England in cathedrals, churches, schools, libraries and guildhalls. The arts of memory The Book of Martyrs rather spectacularly marks the point at which the textually oriented memorialising of English Protestantism sublates the commemorative function of the saint's life: it both preserves and surmounts Catholic memory, whose devotion towards the miraculous body manifests itself in reliquaries, relics, icons and other venerable objects. Foxe wages a campaign against hagiography, exemplified by the cultural prominence of the Golden Legend , the florilegium of saints’ lives quarried by medieval preachers and widely circulated over the centuries in manuscript and print forms. This storehouse of saint lore captured the popular imagination, not only infusing life into the Church Calendar of Christian feasts but also supplying evocative imagery and scenes for the graphic arts. In Foxe's text, the martyr is not reducible to his body's grisly expiration, but bears witness to the Christian faith through word and deed, remaining true to his doctrinal beliefs in an assured and equanimous manner while suffering under extraordinary duress.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.006 |
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".