The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ, ed. Victor Houliston, Ginevra Crosignani, and Thomas M. McCoog, SJ (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2017).
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter examines the volume on the letters and papers of the English Jesuit Robert Persons (1546–1610) — the most prominent of the leaders of the early English Mission — edited by Victor Houliston, Ginevra Crosignani, and Thomas M. McCoog, SJ. This volume covers the period in Persons's life from shortly after his expulsion from Balliol College in 1574 to the run up of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The letters in between give a first-hand account of a wide range of crucial events. They cover the conflicts between the Welsh and the English at the Venerable English College in Rome. They also give more than a glimpse into the fateful mission of Persons and Edmund Campion to England in 1580–1581. Letters usefully place this endeavour within the context of global Jesuit missions. The documents show the elitism of the Jesuits, preoccupied above all with the conversion of the gentry. The chapter then considers a number of considerable challenges faced by the editors in putting this correspondence together.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.090 | 0.034 |
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".