Baschera, Luca, Bruce Gordon, and Christian Moser, eds. Following Zwingli: Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich
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Abstract
This interesting collection presents the collective work of a group of researchers on the religious life of early modern Zürich.The title and the introductory chapter both suggest that the linking theme of the volume is the use of historical models in the shaping of the reformed church in the Swiss metropolis.However, this suggestion could potentially mislead.This is not primarily, or even substantially, a book about historiography.The "past" which is deployed in its chapters varies from Hebrew Scripture to Christian antiquity, to the immediate remembered lives of its actors or their parents.It would be fairer to say that each of the substantive chapters offers a review and a detailed analysis and exposition of a handful of interesting, curious source documents, sometimes just one, sometimes two or four per chapter.So, in the first (and longest) chapter, Mark Taplin, the author of a splendid monograph on The Italian Reformers and the Zurich Church, c. 1540-1620, presents a detailed and scholarly analysis of Josias Simler's Scripta Veterum Latina of 1571.This work, a carefully curated compilation of texts deriving from the Nestorian and Eutychian controversies, offered Simler an opportunity to affirm the Christological orthodoxy of the Zürich church against its critics from left and right.(This forty-page article is in turn an abridgement of an even longer piece published in Zwingliana for 2011).Jon Delmas Wood offers a concise digest of his analysis of Heinrich Bullinger's Sermones Synodales, notes for addresses delivered to the Zürich clergy; these are also discussed in Wood's doctoral dissertation, recently published as Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich: Heinrich Bullinger's End-Times Agenda (2019).At a more manageable length, Torrance Kirby explores the theology of kingship to be found in Peter Martyr Vermigli's letter to Elizabeth I of England on the occasion of her accession.Christian Moser explores four Zürich commentaries on the Book of Ruth, and explains how they used the text as an exemplary guide to the behaviour of Christian women, notwithstanding some problematic aspects in the text.Rebecca Giselbrecht reviews two sermons, one
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.004 |
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".