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Pastoral Texts

2017· other· en· W4229489962 on OpenAlexaff
Marc B. Cels

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicReformation and Early Modern Christianity
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVernacularArchbishopHeresyProtestantismWelshIrishPastoral careVirtueHistoryLiteratureClassicsReligious studiesSociologyArtTheologyPhilosophyArchaeologyLinguistics

Abstract

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Pastoral texts provided clergy with instruction in pastoral care, including how to conduct penance, what Christian doctrines and practices to teach, and exhortations to virtue. Pastoral texts are studied as sources for medieval culture and religion, which influenced even secular writings. Latin was the dominant language, although pastoral texts survive in English, French, Irish, and Welsh. Pastoral writings had a long tradition, but burgeoned from the thirteenth century as the expectations for both parish priests and their lay congregations increased. By the fourteenth‐century, vernacular religious writing became significant, especially in England. Responding to the threat of heresy, Archbishop Thomas Arundel of Canterbury issued restrictions on vernacular biblical translations and theological discussion and tried to limit lay religious discourse to elementary pastoral instruction. The advent of printing helped to make pastoral texts more accessible, but the pastoral gave way to the polemics of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.264
Threshold uncertainty score0.884

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.006
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2640.084

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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