Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric. By JosephGrossi. Toronto: Toronto University Press. 2021. xiv + 385 pp. $85; £56.99. ISBN 978 1 4875 0573 8.
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Abstract
monastic observance in Saxony (whether Benedictine or canonical) significantly post-dates the emergence of the region's female monastic landscape.(As an aside, the impulse to explain the predominance of female monasticism in this regionwhich I have also attemptedmay itself be productively examined: historians of male monasticism are not expected to explain its predominance.)Greer could also more directly intervene in debates around the Reichskirchensystem, which at present occupy a surprisingly liminal space in her historiographical positioning (pp.23-4).If, as Greer argues, 'it is his [Henry I's] accession to the throne that also explains the prominence of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg, rather than the institutions themselves explaining the prominence of the family' (p.181), then this has important implications which are worth pursuing.These are, however, minor critiques.Greer has produced a detailed and insightful study on the reshaping of dynasty memory with relevance to historians of early medieval monasticisms, dynasties, and the Ottonian world writ large.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.008 |
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".