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Record W2550859193 · doi:10.1093/fs/knw262

King and Colony in Pierre Corneille’s <i>Le Cid</i>

2016· article· en· W2550859193 on OpenAlex
Micah True

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrench Studies · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFrench Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeudalismMonarchyTragicomedyMoorsPoliticsHistoryLiteratureHumanitiesOrder (exchange)ClassicsArtAncient historyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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Pierre Corneille’s tragicomedy Le Cid has often been interpreted as the story of medieval Castile’s transition from feudalism to a strong monarchy, a story that clearly resonates with France’s own domestic political concerns under Louis XIII. This article focuses instead on Castile’s external political engagements in the play, and how they reflect France’s efforts to establish colonies during the seventeenth century. It is argued here that reading Le Cid alongside France’s record of colonization in North America allows the play to be understood not only as an exploration of a fraught moment in French domestic politics, but also as a reflection of the kingdom’s efforts to maintain and expand control over foreign lands. Several aspects of Le Cid — Rodrigue’s duel with Don Gomès and the events surrounding it, Castile’s conflict with the Moors, and King Don Fernand’s mostly ineffective efforts to maintain order — appear on close inspection to have implications for affairs external as much as internal, a feature of Corneille’s tragicomedy that distinguishes it from the Spanish play that inspired it. More broadly, this article shows how accounting for France’s colonization of the New World may help cast the famously insular French seventeenth century in a new and revealing light.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.692
Threshold uncertainty score0.317

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.205 · 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