Bibliographic record
Abstract
The following list contains the nine known life-records directly linked to Chaucer that have been found since the publication of Martin M. Crow and Clair C. Olson, Chaucer Life-Records (Oxford, 1966). Crow and Olson give 493 known life-records (see p. 596). The list below continues that numbering, but, unlike Crow and Olson’s list, is ordered chronologically.#494: Kew, The National Archives (TNA), KB 27/477, rot. 58d. Identified by Christopher Cannon, “Raptus in the Chaumpaigne Release and a Newly Discovered Document Concerning the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer,” Speculum 68 (1993): 74–94.#495: TNA, E 158/159, brevia directa baronibus, m. 9d. Identified by Sebastian Sobecki, “Wards and Widows: Troilus and Criseyde and New Documents on Chaucer’s Life,” ELH 86 (2019): 413–40.#496: TNA, C 81/596/1351. First printed by Helen Killick, “Thomas Hoccleve as Poet and Clerk,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of York (York, 2010), 30–31, but identified by Sebastian Sobecki, “Stones Left Unturned (Psst! More New Chaucer Life Records),” NCS blog (October 1, 2019), online at: https://chaucerblog.net/2019/10/stones-left-unturned-psst-more-new-chaucer-life-records/.#497: TNA, CP 40/557, rot. 78. Identified by Douglas Richardson, online at: https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/sCNMvvCapsw/m/8J8tngzVBQAJ. Printed by Sebastian Sobecki, “Stones Left Unturned (Psst! More New Chaucer Life Records),” NCS blog (October 1, 2019), online at:https://chaucerblog.net/2019/10/stones-left-unturned-psst-more-new-chaucer-life-records/.#498: TNA, KB 136/5/3/1/2 (morrow of Martinmas, London). Identified by Euan Roger. Printed in the present issue (pp. 440–42).#499: TNA, KB 145/3/3/2, unnumbered membrane. Identified by Euan Roger. Printed in the present issue (pp. 443–44).#500: TNA, C 76/55, m. 9. Identified by Sebastian Sobecki. Unpublished. The enrolled copy of a safe conduct granted to Chaucer.#501: TNA, KB 145/3/11/1, unnumbered membrane. Identified by Euan Roger. Mentioned in the present issue. (p. 510).#502: TNA, CP 52/4/16/4/3 (morrow of St. John the Baptist, London), Common Pleas, annotated writ of capias to Chaucer and others to appear before the Court of Common Pleas on the morrow of St. John the Baptist to answer actions of debt brought by William Venour. Linked to CP 40/530, rot. 16d cases in Crow and Olson (pp. 391–93). Identified by Euan Roger (see p. 511 in present issue).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.552 | 0.374 |
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".