Transnational Influences of Early Jesuit Scholars and\nExplorers in the New World from 1560-1700
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Society of Jesus, as created during the Catholic Counter Reformation in the 1500s, has been studied repeatedly from a Eurocentric point of view, and this has had a lasting influence on how its impact is taught to young students. The order is rarely mentioned for its influence in the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty in China or their crucial interactions with indigenous peoples in the Americas, particularly Canada and Belize. The Society of Jesus is also seen as a solely religious institution, but the Jesuits were also responsible for mapmaking in China among other long-lasting non-faith based contributions. The role of the Jesuits in other countries are also controversial for the “un-Catholic” and, some would say, immoral methods used. I am planning on using various sources for information for this research, but the most critical sources for me are the Jesuit Archives in Xavier University in Cincinnati and The Jesuit Archives in St. Louis. These archives house important primary documents that will allow me access inside the Jesuit community and history. One of the most important collections is the Belize Collection in the archive in St. Louis which will give me the direct information I need for the Belize concentration of my research. It is through this research that I hope to demonstrate how the Society of Jesus was not just confined to specifically European nation-states, or Catholicism itself, but was in fact its own individual transnational phenomena loosely linked to the Vatican and wielding more influence than many other foreign entities could ever claim.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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.
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