Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reaktion Books' "Renaissance Lives" series appears designed for an audience somewhere between the general reader and the experienced scholar.To judge from this volume (the first I have perused), the series will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in early modern art, literature, politics, and culture; the notably handsome production of both text and illustrations certainly enhances its appeal.In the case of Andrew Hadfield's Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing, the interest of even the active scholar will be piqued, since the book treats a literary figure, usually considered if not "major" then highly significant, who emerges as more contradictory and possibly even more incoherent than any other writer of the period.While the reader might expect at the outset a comforting grounding in the subject, the introduction, "Nashe's Life, Interests, and Circle, " provides an unsettling summary of the disconcerting and puzzling psychological and ideological contradictions and paradoxes of Nashe's career, including especially his curious obsession with his nemesis Gabriel Harvey.The first chapter, "Religion, " contains important clues for the apparent contradiction between Nashe's rebellious spirit and the conservatism of his ideological commitments: as the introduction has posited, this "angry satirist" was at the same time a "deeply religious man" (9, 12).The son of a clergyman, Nashe's role as one of the anti-Martinist writers in the Martin Marprelate debates shows his keen desire to defend the state Protestant church against (Puritan) attacks on episcopal hierarchy and authoritarianism.While "references to religion are legion throughout [Nashe's] works, " for Hadfield the "main animating principle in Nashe's writings is not doctrinal, but a hostility to sectarian schism" (53).Nashe's deep respect for learning explains his resistance to "democratizing the clergy" (49) and may also explain his hostility to "claims that ingenuity and true religion are at odds, and that faith requires the rejection of pleasure, sophistication, and complexity" (58).Such rationale, however, leads to the more doubtful reading of Christ's Tears over Jerusalem as a political assertion that "there can be no understanding without the use of paradox and wit, and [that] a simple and straightforward belief in God's grace is unlikely to be enough in […] times
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
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".