Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay makes the argument that the sixteenth century Italian Renaissance can be interpreted as having occurred as a result of the bubonic plague, or “black death.” Since the plague recurred in waves throughout the sixteenth century, those who experienced it endured a shift in their mentality as a means of surviving—or, in some cases, they failed to do so. Surrounded by death and decay and desperately clinging to devout Christianity, eventually people began to desire a way out of the dreariness. Enter, the Renaissance. As literature such as Boccaccio's famous The Decameron inspired humanist thinking, many began to focus more on enjoying their potentially fleeting lives by engaging in new pastimes. Art, for example, became more robust both in quantity and quality. As well, socio-economic centers, the church, and the overall sixteenth century psyche displayed an observable shift throughout the rampage of the Black Death—all of which represent phenomena commonly associated with the Renaissance. This essay presents a unique entrance point for discussing the Renaissance and is thus a valuable addition to the Medieval and Renaissance Studies discourse.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".