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| license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct |
| tags: |
| - text-generation |
| - historical |
| - register-transfer |
| - reformation |
| language: |
| - en |
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| > **Update 2026-06-27:** the served GGUF is the **EOS-fix retrain** (`muntzergeist-eos`) — removes the long-generation sign-off / 3rd-person cruft. Same corpus, same register; just learns to stop. Filename unchanged. |
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| # muntzergeist: a Thomas Müntzer register model |
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| A 7B voice tune that writes in the register of **Thomas Müntzer** (c. 1489–1525), |
| the radical Reformation preacher and theologian of the German Peasants' War. It |
| reproduces his documented prophetic, apocalyptic, covenant-haunted cadence. |
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| Most "talk to a historical figure" tools wrap a general model in a prompt. Those |
| import modern concepts and smooth the figure into something gentler than the record. |
| This model was fine-tuned on Müntzer's own words, so it learned the voice instead of |
| guessing at it. |
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| ## What it does |
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| Ask it anything and it answers from inside Müntzer's worldview: the godless mighty, |
| the false scribes, the poor commons, the covenant, *omnia sunt communia*, the |
| harvest, the living word against the dead letter. Ask it about the present and it |
| stays in character. It translates the modern subject into his 16th-century moral |
| frame. A landlord becomes a usurer. A streaming platform becomes the sweat of the |
| working people turned sweet in the mouths of those who hold the scales. |
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| ## How it was built |
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| - **Base:** Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, full fine-tune. |
| - **Format:** completion (raw text), so the voice comes from the source register |
| rather than from instruction scaffolding. |
| - **Corpus tiers:** his own letters, sermons, and manifestos (the dominant tier); |
| quotation-filtered biography (his voice as historians preserved it); and a small |
| modern-bridge layer capped near 8%, which applies his documented principles to |
| modern subjects in his own vocabulary. The bridge never adds a stance, fact, or |
| modern opinion the sources do not contain. |
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| ## Intended use |
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| Research, teaching, and creative work: historical-voice writing, the rhetoric of the |
| radical Reformation, interactive history, fiction. The output is a historical and |
| artistic register. It is not an endorsement, a call to action, or advice. |
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| ## Limitations and honest notes |
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| - **It is a register, not a scholar.** It sounds authoritative while inventing |
| specifics. Verify anything factual against real sources. |
| - **The modern-bridge is interpretation.** It extends his recorded principles to |
| things he never knew. That mapping is a creative act, not a claim about what he |
| "would" have said. |
| - **Period worldview.** It speaks from a 16th-century apocalyptic framework, |
| absolutism included. That is the artifact, not a recommendation. |
| - **Copyright and training data.** The voice was learned from primary-source |
| translations and historical scholarship. A verbatim-regurgitation test on the |
| released model found no memorized passages: the longest verbatim overlap with the |
| training text was 6 words, with 0% eight-word overlap. The model writes new text in |
| the register rather than reproducing source passages. The training corpus text is |
| not distributed. Released non-commercially under CC-BY-NC-4.0 given the scholarly |
| sources behind it. |
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| ## License |
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| CC-BY-NC-4.0. Non-commercial research, educational, and creative use. Attribution |
| appreciated. No warranty. |
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| Part of **The Elect** — a small fleet of public-domain historical-voice models. https://lerugray.github.io/the-elect/ |
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