One teacher, one spike

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

The Palaiologan revival of classical learning is usually painted as a diffuse renaissance. This conjecture says it was a series of personal spikes: bursts of new witnesses of a given classical author align with the documented teaching career of an individual professor, because a chair's syllabus was in effect a copying order, and pupils multiplied exemplars during — not after — the master's active years. Take away the man and the author's copying curve goes flat again. If it holds, the transmission statistics of the classics in late Byzantium become a prosopography of perhaps two dozen teachers, checkable name by name.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

For classical authors showing a Palaiologan surge in datable Pinakes witnesses, the surge midpoint falls within the documented floruit of a PLP-attested teacher recorded as teaching or editing that author in more than 70% of cases. Primary clause: the alignment rate; the verdict follows it.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Pinakes dated Palaiologan witnesses per classical author, joined to the Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit for teachers' careers.

Nobody has run this test. The kill-data is named above. If you can run it — or you know the paper that already settles it — claim the kill or submit the prior. Kills and priors are credited here, by name, as they come in.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write from the inline prompt and existing-title list only, with no file reads, web access, or database queries.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

That Palaiologan classical transmission is concentrated in the editions and school circles of a handful of named teachers (Planudes, Moschopoulos, Magistros, Triclinius) is the standard picture (Fryde; Turyn's recension studies), anticipating the mechanism; the 70% surge-to-floruit alignment test against the PLP is un-run.

E. Fryde, The Early Palaeologan Renaissance 1261-c.1360 (Brill 2000)

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