Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Great: A Study of the Edictum Theoderici, by Sean D.W. Lafferty
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For a long time, the period of Ostrogothic rule in Italy received comparatively little attention from scholars, despite the obvious achievements of the most prominent king, Theoderic, and the relative abundance of textual sources, most notably the Variae, the rich official correspondence of the regime’s leading official, Cassiodorus. Classicists regarded such a period of Germanic rule as marginal to mainstream Late Roman history, while medievalists saw it as a dead end, which failed to match the longer-term political legacy of the Frankish, Visigothic or Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Italian historians identified more closely with the Lombards, whom they saw as initiating a new distinctively medieval society from 568 onwards. In the world of English language scholarship, however, the last quarter of a century has witnessed a revival of interest, thanks to the work of Peter Heather, John Moorhead, Patrick Amory, Jonathan Arnold, Shaun Bjornle and others, to the extent that in 2016 a Companion to Ostrogothic Italy was published.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".