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Record W4406625941 · doi:10.29173/cons29553

The Impossible Definition of Crusading

2025· article· en· W4406625941 on OpenAlex
Roan Van Helden

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueConstellations · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicLaw, logistics, and international trade
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyEpistemologyPolitical science

Abstract

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The word “crusading” is a well-known and seemingly well-defined word in modern academia. This historiographical paper questions the usage of the word. Using the works of Jonathan Riley-Smith, Jay Rubenstein, Paul M. Cobb, and Christopher Tyerman, the term “crusading” will be explored in its many contexts and uses, especially the conflicting definitions explored by these authors. What is shown is that in both the Middle Ages and modern scholarship, there is not a single universal meaning to the word “crusading”. Instead, there is a spectrum of different motivations and actions that are classified as “crusading” by modern scholarship. This makes the term “crusading” so broad that it ultimately loses its meaning. This essay compares various modern interpretations of what crusading means in an effort to emphasise how contradictory these definitions have become.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.980
Threshold uncertainty score0.207

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.219 · 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