The Fear of Conversion to Islam in Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk (1609)
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Abstract
Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk (1609/1612) is about the conversion of Captain John Ward (1553-1622) to Islam. The play explores the threats and prizes of religious conversion, the probability of turning away from it, and then returning to Christianity and to England. Daborne depicts how Islam has regularly entered English public discourse and how Englishmen have imbued with Turkish Islamic manners and costume. Daborne emphasizes on conversion in participation of Elizabethan polemic against Islam. The conversion to Islam suggests the possibility of conversion on the basis of physical, bodily changes. The dreaded spread of Islam in England becomes a great threat. Elizabethan writers became gradually anxious with the Turks and Islam. Many Elizabethan dramatists introduced Islam as a spectre and danger to the Christian religion. Because of the fear of conversion, Daborne’s play deflects hostile remarks directed towards Ward as a Muslim outsider and it ends with the triumph of the virtue, that renegade Ward has been punished by his new faith in an indicted murder played by the Jew.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".