<i>The Life of St Brendan and His Prayer</i> . Trans. with an Intro. and Notes by Gordon Barthos. Medieval Sources in Translation, 62. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2024, xii, 133 pp., 1 b/w ill, 1 map.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The life and travels of the Irish saint St. Brendan are well known by medievalists and many others, and he also enjoys considerable popularity even in modern-day Irish and other cultures. His vita and oratio were translated throughout the Middle Ages into a variety of European vernaculars, as nicely documented by The Voyage of Saint Brendan , ed. W. R. J. Barron and Glyn S. Burgess (2002; oddly, not even mentioned by Barthos in his new translation). The present volume makes available the vita and Navigatio plus the oratio based on the most trustworthy and oldest manuscript versions. Barthos intends to make available those important and highly influential texts to modern readers not fluent in (medieval) Latin, presenting texts as they circulated in the high Middle Ages parallel to the accounts of King Arthur and the Round Table and other famous saints.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.012 |
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".