<i>European Magic and Witchcraft: A Reader.</i> Ed. Martha Rampton. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 20. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, pp. xv+461, 8 b/w illustrations.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the brief preface to this collection of documents, Professor Rampton warns readers, most of whom she assumes will be college students, that they are going “to fly through a mirror,” into a distant country where they will meet people who think very differently than they do and indeed where nature seems to operate very differently than they would expect. Rampton explains that she has kept introductions to the selections “minimal,” so that readers can form their own impressions, becoming “witnesses” rather than “voyeurs.” She hopes they will appreciate the ecstasy of a magician discovering a new secret, the exasperation of a pastor whose parishioners keep going to the local cunning woman, and the indignity suffered by a woman interrogated on suspicion of being a witch.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".