Review: <i>Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe</i>, by Meg Leja
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Abstract
Book Review| February 01 2024 Review: Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe, by Meg Leja Meg Leja, Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 392 pp. ISBN: 9780812253894 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780812298505 (ebook). $89.95. Faith Wallis Faith Wallis McGill University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2024) 8 (1): 133–136. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2024.8.1.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Faith Wallis; Review: Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe, by Meg Leja. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 February 2024; 8 (1): 133–136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2024.8.1.133 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Embodying the Soul is an exceptionally important book for scholars interested in first-millennium Europe, in Christianity as a cultural form, and in medical history. Meg Leja argues that the Carolingian leadership’s dedication to ideals of correctio aimed to foster a reformed Christian society led by a king whose mandate was “by the grace of God.” Under the king’s command were the churchmen and lay aristocrats who would execute his designs for uniformity and justice, and beneath them were the Christian subjects (to be a subject was to be a Christian, and vice versa) who were enjoined to internalize their responsibilities not only by swearing an oath to the sovereign but by committing their lives to novel pastoral disciplines. In politics and religion, the goal was salus—a word that means “salvation” or “well-being,” but also “health.” Leja’s originality lies in documenting how “health” was much more than just a metaphor... You do not currently have access to this content.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".