David R. Winter, <i>The Llanthony Stories: A Translation of the</i> Narrationes aliquot fabulosae. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021, x, 173 pp.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This slim volume provides a single-text Latin edition and English translation of a fragmentary collection of pithy moral tales composed in the first decades of the thirteenth century. While the seventeenth-century cataloguer of the sole manuscript that preserves them called these stories Narrationes aliquot fabulosae (“Some fanciful tales”), the editor of the present volume has renamed them The Llanthony Stories to reflect the fact that the collection originated at the Augustinian priory of St. Mary of Llanthony in Gloucester. The Llanthony Stories comprise thirty-five short anecdotes featuring a number of well-known historical persons, including kings, bishops, and crusaders, as well as nameless characters of lesser ranks. Many of these stories (or versions thereof) have analogues in contemporary exempla collections attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Caesarius of Heisterbach, and Odo of Chariton, though several are unique to this collection. Taken together, these tales provide “an important and hitherto little noticed witness to ecclesiastical and public life in the Welsh Marches in the decades bracketing 1200” (2).
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.003 |
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".