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Record W2496939704 · doi:10.1057/9780230579538_6

The Quest for a Symbol — Wenceslas and the Czech State

2007· book-chapter· en· W2496939704 on OpenAlexaff
Stefan Samerski

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Archaeological Studies
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmperorAncient historyRulerMartyrBattleChristianityState (computer science)HistoryThroneEleventhBrotherNothingFaithClassicsArtLawPhilosophyPoliticsArchaeologyTheologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Few states can look back on a continuity of such personified state symbolism as the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, now the Czech Republic: Wenceslas (Vâclav/Wenzel) was looked upon since the eleventh century as protectorin-battle, an eternal ruler, and a symbol of the Bohemian state. 1 The Bohemian prince Wenceslas urged the spreading of the Christian faith in the tenth century and defended his country against invasions by the Bavarians in 922. 2 He became a martyr on 28 September 929 (or 935), when he was slain in a clash with his conspiring brother Boleslav at Starâ Boleslav (Altbunzlau). In the background of this bloody conflict apparently stood both the forced conversion to Christianity and Wenceslas’s readiness to submit to the rule of the Saxon kings in 929, paying a tribute of 500 pounds in silver and 120 oxen. It is the fratricidal Boleslav, who successfully ruled the country for over 30 years, who went down in history as the real founder of the state. Historically, Wenceslas can only boast of having converted to Christianity nothing more than his small territory, and of a limited knowledge of Latin. But ever since the tenth century, he has been venerated as a martyr and, as early as the tenth and eleventh centuries, he has been revered as a most powerful ruler. His vita was first written in the tenth century both in Old Church Slavonic and Latin (commissioned by Emperor Otto II). Although there is little historical evidence to support this joined Slav and German tradition of worship, Wenceslas’s cult continued unbroken until after 1945. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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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)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.011
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.189 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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