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Record W4410697525 · doi:10.1558/rst.29503

John of Salisbury

2025· article· en· W4410697525 on OpenAlexaff
Grace Nicoll

Bibliographic record

VenueReligious Studies and Theology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval Literature and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChemistryPhilosophyPhysics

Abstract

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John of Salisbury’s twelfth-century political treatise, the Policraticus, discusses the respective powers of Church and State and the ethics of rulership. This paper analyses John’s commentary on royal and ecclesiastical tyranny which reveals his non- hierocratic perspective of power. He differentiates between kingly and priestly tyrants while also advocating for tyrannicide in limited circumstances. Archbishop Thomas Becket and King Henry II, both of whom meet John’s criteria for tyranny, are case studies as they represent the powers of Church and State respectively. Becket’s assassination would seem to be the natural consequence of his previous tyrannical behaviour, yet John quickly pronounces Becket a martyr. For John, secular tyrants oppose the law they are meant to embody; therefore their death is warranted. Priestly tyrants, however, are God’s ministers and provide salvation via the sacraments. The Church is eternal but the State temporary; thus, the tyrannicide of a priest is never justifiable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.936
Threshold uncertainty score0.238

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 studies0.0000.001
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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.237 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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