"Chevaleresse" to "Dame Amaczon": A Woman's Vision of Femininity at the Court of René d'Anjou
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: Le Livre de Thezeo , the first translation into French of Boccacio's Teseida delle Nozze d'Emilia , was produced at the court of René d'Anjou (1409–80) during the second half of the fifteenth century. In La Théséïde , its single extant illustrated manuscript, the clear focus on Princess Emilia's moral struggles, between her Amazonian culture and the Athenian world in which she followed her sister Queen Hyppolita, reflects the debate on love and gendered roles that engaged the highly educated Angevin-Provençal courtiers. Considering René's second wife Jeanne de Laval (1433–98) to be the book's commissioner, this essay examines her reimagined archetype of femininity in conjunction with Christine de Pizan's (c. 1364–c.1431) image of the Amazon queen in her Livre de la Cité des dames . Keating argues that the manuscript commissioned by Jeanne paints a commemorative portrait of Isabelle de Lorraine (1400–53) as Emilia the "Dame Amaczon," depicting René's first wife as a model of female political authority and Jeanne's vision of the role of noble women in the Early Renaissance society. Barthélemy d'Eyck's visualization of the Greek legend for his contemporary audience and of Emilia's internal debates makes this book a remarkable manuscript that strengthened Jeanne's reputation as a cultured bibliophile.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".