Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on a close reading of sources related to the Ursuline missions in Canada, this chapter explores the potential of body relics as signifiers of female spirituality. In the early modern period, religiously inspired women often read bodily effects as outward signs of spiritual experiences, making sensually perceptible what was verbally inexpressible. Manipulation of and control over the body could be a form of empowerment. To the Ursuline nuns, overseas missions offered unusual opportunities for religious self-expression and self-assertion. They adapted body techniques both in mystic experiences and in encouraging and/or enforcing religious and cultural assimilation in those targeted by their mission. After death, their bodies sometimes became precious objects of memory and religious devotion. While “saint deprivation” was keenly felt in the colonies, the Ursulines preserved and adored body relics for a whole range of other reasons. They clearly engaged in “saint fabrication,” but their treatment and use of the relics did not always conform to the church’s prescriptions. I argue that the body was well suited to signifying closeness of the divine, connectedness with a community, or indebtedness to shared models of sainthood precisely because bodily signs were equivocal and could be interpreted in more ways than one.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.002 |
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".