Vernacularization of Bulgarian literacy in the seventeenth century: new perspectives
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The homily On the Ten Commandments, attributed to Damaskēnos Stouditēs but in fact authored by his teacher Theophanēs Eleavoulkos, was included in manuscripts of different types and read in the Bulgarian lands for over three hundred years starting in the late sixteenth century. This article reports the results of the textual analysis of 26 copies of the text in Greek, Church Slavonic, vernacular Bulgarian, and Romanian, and shows what light the textual study of a vernacular text in conjunction with its accessible counterparts can shed on the processes of vernacularization that took place in the Bulgarian lands in the seventeenth century. The article concludes that in this period there existed a circle of anonymous conservative men of letters who adhered to the opinion that Church Slavonic in a minimally modernized form should continue to be the written language of Bulgarians. It suggests that they were associated with the Adzhar school of calligraphy and illumination (1630s–1760s). The views endorsed by these men of letters were in contrast with those of their more radical contemporaries who championed a Bulgarian written language based on the vernacular. These two circles of men of letters shared many creative characteristics, probably due to their schooling together.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".