Brut y Tywysogion: the History of the Princes and Twelfth-Century Cambro-Latin Historical Writing
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Abstract
Brut y Tywysogion is a source of fundamental importance to medieval Welsh and British history, but discussion of the chronicle in and of itself has been relatively limited. This paper will first discuss the nature of the chronicle, or more accurately the family of closely related chronicles that can be grouped under the title Brut y Tywysogion . The aim is to establish that the chronicle often preserves many features of older source material, and that consequently there is little basis for seeing the entirety of the work as the product of expansion and literary elaboration on the part of a late thirteenth-century compiler, as was the opinion of the Brut 's editor, Thomas Jones. This will then enable close consideration of a distinctive section of the chronicle narrating the first quarter of the twelfth century. It has been argued elsewhere that this section is derived from a near contemporary account written before 1127. Discussion of the text's depiction of contemporary Welsh and English kingship will demonstrate that the ambiguous political sympathies of its author place him firmly in the complex and divided world of Wales in the early twelfth century. Comparison with his contemporaries as historians will also illustrate how this work fits into the context of twelfth-century historical writing more generally. Brut y Tywysogion , often translated as the Chronicle of the Princes but more accurately the History of the Princes, is the name given to three closely related chronicles in Middle Welsh. The generally accepted explanation for their interrelationship is that they are three independent translations derived from a Brut y Tywysogion is a source of fundamental importance to medieval Welsh and British history, but discussion of the chronicle in and of itself has been relatively limited. This paper will first discuss the nature of the chronicle, or more accurately the family of closely related chronicles that can be grouped under the title Brut y Tywysogion . The aim is to establish that the chronicle often preserves many features of older source material, and that consequently there is little basis for seeing the entirety of the work as the product of expansion and literary elaboration on the part of a late thirteenth-century compiler, as was the opinion of the Brut 's editor, Thomas Jones.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".