Miserere Mei: The Pentitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
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Abstract
comptes rendus 171 of truth in Shakespeare's tragedy affixes itself to Othello, whose stories are dubious and who cannot recognize the spiritual truth represented by Desdemona.This leaves him subject to a moralized fate similar to that inflicted upon the French Huguenot's Holofernes, for whom boastful self-fashioning led inevitably to blasphemy and then to death.Hillman's reading importantly reveals Shakespeare's play as a "psychological adaptation of Reform theology" (74), but unexpectedly leaves Desdemona as little more than an idealized function.The chapter moves on to consider Tamburlaine, who like Holofernes is threatened with emotional defeat by the beautiful captive Zenocrate.But Tamburlaine is able to "co-opt Zenocrate's [divinely-imbued] strength" and master the divinity that normally humbles the avatars of Holofernes (88).Marlowe conjures the tradition only to invert it and thus to emphasize the indeterminability of truth.French Origins offers no conclusion, though something further might be said about the tragic interactions of history and metaphysics, as well as about the "circulation" of discourses between France and England.It is surprising, as well, that the author never returns to the issue addressed in the book's opening paragraphs, that of the "process of disengagement" obliquely visible in the discursive engagement between France and England.There is very little room for formal textual analysis anywhere in the book, which diminishes the force of some claims, particularly those involving the humour in hyperbolic neo-Senecanism.Nevertheless, French Origins offers a persuasively nuanced critique of what Hillman calls the "Myth of the Single Source, " and memorably demonstrates its central premise that writers read and wrote "through and across" multiple texts.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".