Bibliographic record
Abstract
describes her book as follows: 'This book is about music's work in raising the medieval city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend ' (p. 1).The keyword in this first sentence is 'work'.Reuland's project is to show that music did more than entertain or ornament: the act of singing texts (and hearing them sung) in specific recurring political and religious contexts played a central role in maintaining the power and efficacy of the Venetian state and its far-flung colonies: it was 'an element of statecraft' (p.3).The book is a series of case studies from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, each of which weaves together evidence drawing on many different kinds of documents, including historical records, political theory, visual art, music, and liturgy.A central theme of the book is music's role in the concept of repraesentatio, 'the juristic concept of the proxy' (p.14), where re-enactment retains the power of the initial event: not an imitation of the past, but a re-creation and reinforcement of communities, loyalty, and belief in the power of Venice, 'a statecraft of the imagination' (pp.14-16).(Throughout this review I will use 'St Mark' for the saint and 'San Marco' for the Venetian basilica.)Part I (ch. 1, pp. 19-41, and ch. 2, pp.42-78), surprisingly, focuses on Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, especially Crete (pp.7-9).Chapter 1, 'Echoes of Empire: The Laudes in Medieval Venetian Crete', looks at the role of the laudes regiae in the establishment and maintenance of Crete's status as a colony of Venice.The founding document, the 'Concessio insulae Cretensis', requires that all feudatories 'have laudes sung for [the doge] and for [his] successors in the archbishopric and bishoprics four times a year, on Christmas, Easter, the Feast of Saint Mark, and on the feast of the major church of Crete' (p.19) in addition to levying taxes and raising armies.The laudes regiae (famously discussed by Ernst Kantorowicz in 1946) were first
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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 | 0.000 | 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".