Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter begins by discussing the often-remarked connection between textual and textile technologies, before focusing on a style of knot called a “Turk’s-head” knot by modern codicologists, and commonly found on medieval book fastenings and girdle book chemises. The codicologists’ term has evaded scrutiny, I suggest, because the image—of a Moorish head hanging from the hand or belt of a premodern European reader—fits Western thought about books a little too well. The legacies of violence and conquest latent in the term “Turk’s-head” knot are latent in Western histories of the book, where they form the overlooked background for endless, triumphalist narratives about the “rise of the West.” My chapter tries to reorient these narratives by demonstrating that knot work found in and on medieval European books is closely tied to many other cultures’ bookbinding practices. Such books can be resituated, by way of their knots, in a global network for the exchange of text technologies in the premodern period.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".