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Record W4376617323 · doi:10.4324/9781351119825-9

Walter S. George and the Byzantine House

2023· book-chapter· en· W4376617323 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kostis Kourelis

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicByzantine Studies and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeorge (robot)Byzantine architectureArtArt historyHistoryClassics

Abstract

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An idealised notion of antiquity informed the construction of Modern Greece. Archaeology’s objective was to materialise the western classical heritage by freeing it up from medieval accretions. Neoclassicism’s perspective of a single golden period came into increasing conflict with a diachronic sense of history developed by British medievalists. The ideal of layered accumulation articulated by John Ruskin, the ethos of imperfect craft practiced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the preservation principles developed by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings conspired against the classical heritage. Impure Venice symbolised the foil to pure Athens. The architects of the Byzantine Research and Publication Fund brought the ethics of Venice to a hostile Athens. The medieval house, which had been indiscriminately destroyed by archaeologists, needed to be rehabilitated by fresh domestic research. In 1909, Walter S. George’s surveyed three houses at medieval Mistras, while working for the British excavations in nearby Sparta. George’s unpublished drawings illustrate a departure from French and Greek scholarship on the site. Combining the Ruskinian ideals of his mentor W.R. Lethaby with new stratigraphic lessons learned in Sparta, George developed a critical voice in medieval archaeology. This voice is also evident in Ramsay Traquair, who pioneered the study of vernacular architecture in Canada after his experiences with the Byzantine Research and Publication Fund. Rhys Carpenter, director of the American School in Athens, applied this critical voice in the excavation of medieval Corinth. Ruskin had little impact in Greek intellectual circles until the 1930s. His shadow, however, seems to have been already cast a generation earlier through the prominence that British architects placed on the medieval house.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.766
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.182
Teacher spread0.150 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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Published2023
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