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Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion
Authors: Holberton Edward 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter surveys various attitudes to royal mercy and oblivion in the poetry written to celebrate the king’s return. The 1660 Act of Indemnity and Oblivion made forgetting law, but poetry of the early Restoration reveals some of the problems implicit in what the Earl of Clarendon called the ‘Art of Forgetfulness’: if the return to the status quo ante is an art, then how can one practise this art without reminding oneself of what is to be forgotten, namely the Interregnum? And if the effacement of the Interregnum is indeed a piece of art, is the restoration of monarchical culture that rests on this fiction not also an artifice, something made not by God or nature, but people? Restoration panegyrics by Cowley, Davenant, Dryden, and Waller probe these questions and reflect insightfully on the roles such poetry might play in mediating public memory.
Catholic Writing in the Restoration
Authors: Shell Alison 
Published: January 2025

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Anti-popery pervaded Restoration England, occasioning imaginative prejudice, socio-political discrimination, and—during the years of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’—outright persecution. Yet Catholic writers stood out against this climate and pleaded their cause with considerable success, circulating their writings in both manuscript and print—often aided by co-religionists and sympathizers within the Stuart court. An awareness of community, and of tradition as a continuum binding past and present, was vital to these writers’ endeavours. So, too, was a willingness to transcend geographical boundaries: throughout this period, expatriate settlements in mainland Europe—colleges, religious institutions, and finally James II’s exiled court—were vital to English Catholic literary culture. This chronologically arranged chapter primarily focuses on Walter Blount’s Boscobel, a celebration of Charles II’s restoration to the throne; works by the Jesuit Edward Mico, responding to the climate of the mid-1660s; literature from the ‘Popish Plot’ years; John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther, written in James II’s reign after Dryden’s conversion to Catholicism; and the Jacobite poet Jane Barker.
Colonial Rule, Modernity, and Rituals of Royal Power in Morocco
Authors: Hannoum Abdelmajid 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter examines the tensions that surrounded the deployment of sacred speech registers with deep historical roots during momentous episodes in the establishment of colonial hegemony in Northern Africa. To illustrate these developments, the chapter analyzes the ceremony of the bay`a (renewal of allegiance) performed by the Moroccan state once a year, on the Day of the Throne (July 30). The ceremony, transmitted on live TV, presents a majestic show in which the king, dressed in a white robe and riding a black horse, receives signs and words of allegiance from dignitaries, tribal leaders, and governors. I analyze these rituals as a display of royal power, and examine how this ritual originated, in fact, in colonial times, when French authorities began modernizing the Moroccan state.
Ritual, Media, and the Here-and-Now of Decolonization
Authors: Handman Courtney 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter contextualizes international demands for the self-government of former colonies, and addresses calls for decolonization after World War II in Papua New Guinea. In the 1950s, United Nations delegates began making novel ritual and bureaucratic utterances to call for self-government for colonial subjects, including a demand in 1956 that Australia start to move toward the independence of the Territory of New Guinea. Outraged, the Australian government and many in the Australian public argued against near-term independence. Delegitimizing the efficacy of the UN demand required a different contravening ritual event of constructed simultaneity that juxtaposed the primitivism of Papua New Guineans with UN demands for autonomy. The reporting in Australian tabloids of the May River Massacre offered a perfect opportunity. This chapter counterposes the UN’s demand for self-government with media coverage of this massacre to examine how simultaneity was used to delegitimate the ritual event of calling for decolonization.
Ritual Language and Forced Confessions in China
Authors: Fiskesjö Magnus 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter addresses the suppression of political opposition by force-staging ritualized performances of public self-accusations in China. The recent resurgence of such forced confessions builds on Mao-era ritualized self-criticism (1949–1976), in turn inspired by Soviet show trials. Today’s confessions are televised, in a new media landscape. The victims, typically people who built up independent platforms and distinct voices. They are coerced into performing a script filmed and broadcast as news, in which they denounce themselves; they are then force-deplatformed and permanently silenced. This chapter contextualizes, traces, and analyzes the Chinese TV confessions and their language, also comparing them with the similar confessionals extracted in the new secret Xinjiang concentration camp system (but never broadcast). The large resources invested in these TV confessions, which victims, audiences, and even perpetrators often know are fake, may be part of a broader effort to enforce an unquestioned supremacy of the party-state’s ritual language.
Embodied Ritual Performance and New Writing Systems
Authors: Choksi Nishaant 
Published: January 2025

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The “language” of ritual involves not only oral communication but also the manipulation of visual display. Speech signs are therefore coordinated with visual and material artifacts to ensure the efficacy of ritual performance. This chapter will argue that the creation of new writing systems (scripts) stems in part through the practice of coordinating visual material and oral signs in the context of embodied ritual performance, the traces of which are often explicitly evident in the iconic construction of the graphemes themselves. The chapter will draw material from ethnographic accounts of the development of new scripts primarily from Asia and Native America.
The Acquisition of Negation and Finiteness in Tamil
Authors: Amritavalli R. 
Published: January 2025

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Apparently discrete pairs of affirmative and negative Tamil verb forms (finite, nonfinite, modal) are analysed as finite and nonfinite instantiations of neg in a clause structure that dissociates finiteness from tense. The acquisition of these neg forms is demonstrably systematic and error-free in monolingual Tamil children, who at around 25 months also productively and accurately use modals and agreement inflection in affirmatives. Errors in Telugu-Tamil bilingual data at a comparable age are traced to differences in how the two languages mark finiteness and temporality in negative clauses. The Tamil data are pertinent to the Optional Infinitive in child language. They argue (against a parametric (±Tense) account of languages) for finiteness as anchoring by Mood, and acquisition as grammatical mapping from language-universal principles and categories to their language-particular instantiations.
The Legacy of Kannada Dictionaries
Authors: Murthy S. L. Srinivasa 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter traces lexicography in Kannada from its roots in the Sanskrit tradition, through the initial bilingual Kannada-English dictionaries in the Western tradition, which had their primary inspiration in the proselytizing concerns of Christian missionaries, to the creation of the eight-volume etymologically rich Kannada Nighantu under the auspices of the Kannada Literary Academy, first published between 1970 and 1995. The dedicated efforts of anonymous or relatively unknown persons working in an individual or official capacity are shown to have contributed to the discipline. The changing conceptions of the need for lexicography are seen to have influenced the form of dictionaries and the information they contain, as have the media that lexicographers and dictionary users have had access to, whether the oral Sanskritic tradition, the print medium, or the emergent technologies of the 21st century.
Literacy and Its Acquisition in Kannada
Authors: Nag Sonali 
Published: January 2025

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Deep-rooted knowledge of language is essential for Kannada literacy development. A strong cognitive-linguistic understanding of the working principles of this morphologically rich language is needed alongside knowledge about the akshara orthography. A range of linguistic units contributing to literacy development have been identified over approximately half a century of empirical work; all these must be cognitively well represented for Kannada literacy to advance meaningfully. Essential theoretical constructs for this area include orthographic breadth, approaches to akshara recognition, the alphasyllabic principle, and morphological processing around polysemy, homonymy, phonologically conditioned allomorphy, and morphophonological changes. Using the understudied word class of adjectives, some notable aspects of Kannada’s morphosyntax and the mapping of meaning-to-print are examined. The chapter ends with the argument that, aside from vigorously contributing to theorizing in the wider field of literacy development in the akshara languages, Kannada acquisition research is also well-placed to engage with the study of the classification of writing systems and model the acquisition and developing mastery of literacy when words are multisyllabic and polymorphemic.
The Question of Modern Science in Africa and the Middle East
Authors: El Nabolsy Zeyad 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter focuses on an important problem in the intellectual history of the Global South, namely the relationship between modern scientific knowledge and colonialism. This problem was of concern to theorists from the Global South, such as Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral, who were active during the high tide of decolonization in the middle of the twentieth century, and it continues to be of relevance today. This chapter shows how this problem has deep historical roots in the Global South, beginning from at least the late eighteenth century and continuing into the nineteenth century. This chapter focuses on two intellectuals, Rifaʿa al-Tahtawi (1801–1873) from Egypt, and James Africanus Beale Horton (1835–1883) from Sierra Leone. Tahtawi and Horton, despite coming from societies with different histories, found themselves confronting similar problems having to do with their encounter with modern European societies. The main problem that they faced was how to make use of the elements of modern European societies that they admired, especially in relation to the social organization of knowledge production about nature, while rejecting European justifications for colonization. Both Horton and Tahtawi sought to de-associate modern scientific knowledge, which they obviously admired, from claims of racial superiority and justifications of despotic colonial rule.
Indigenous Liberation and Decolonization
Authors: Temin David Myer 
Published: January 2025

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The history of Indigenous peoples’ liberation and decolonization movements have been undertheorized within—when not simply omitted from—histories of the Global South. The applicability of the decolonization framework and the limits of Third World solidarities have often been fraught with respect to Indigenous peoples’ movements, despite an overlapping, if not shared, heritage of decolonizing discourses and practices of (inter)national liberation and self-determination. This chapter explores how Indigenous studies scholars have reconfigured the framework of Red Power, arguing on behalf of the potential in more recent attempts to uncover and theorize the far more complex political and philosophical connections between transnational Indigenous peoples’ decolonization movements (labeled the “Fourth World” by George Manuel) and the “Third World.” In doing so, this chapter seeks to throw into relief the disjunctures and underexplored connections between histories of the Global South (especially its Third Worldist precedents) and of Indigenous peoples’ liberation/decolonization movements. The chapter narrows in primarily on North American Indigenous peoples’ movements and scholarship in Indigenous Studies but branches out in the final section to consider tensions between the contemporary geopolitical promise of the Global South and Indigenous struggles within and against the colonial and postcolonial world.
Classical Inheritance
Authors: Cox Jensen Freyja 
Published: January 2025

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The literature of ancient Greece and Rome, so important a part of the English Renaissance, was no less important for English prose during the Civil Wars and Interregnum, and throughout the later Stuart age. This chapter traces the patterns of production and consumption of Latin and Greek literature in the years 1640–1714, exploring the forms in which these texts were available to readers, and the uses to which they were put. The different categories of classical prose—including history, biography, and political and philosophical thought—are considered for their influence on contemporary ideas of form and genre, and the chapter also explores the ways in which Greek and Latin prose works differed in their effects on English literature.
The Old Arcadia
Authors: Davis Alex 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter discusses Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia in relation to the activity of creation. Its entry point is the pedagogy of Renaissance humanism, which aimed to produce virtuous citizens by teaching the arts of persuasion. The Arcadia is discussed as at once a near-perfect exemplar of early modern rhetorical culture and an uneasy investigation of that culture’s limitations. The chapter discusses Sidney’s engagement with the first part of rhetoric, inventio: the process of discovering compelling arguments and language. This offers an analogue to the exploration in Sidney’s Defence of Poesy of the poet’s activity as making or poiesis. The Old Arcadia offers a sceptical investigation of the nature, ends, and scope of this creative activity.
The Sidney Legend
Authors: Pask Kevin 
Published: January 2025

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Philip Sidney was famous for his death in battle in the Netherlands before he was well known as a writer. This chapter tracks the construction and significance of the Sidney legend of aristocratic heroism, focusing on the role of the legend in the reception of the Arcadia. The Arcadia was widely read as a ‘secret history’, a fiction thought to reflect high political affairs, and Sidney’s position in Elizabeth’s court and the significance of his death was correspondingly exaggerated. Later, however, increasing scepticism about the legend as well as the popularity of the Arcadia among female readers complicated both the personal legend and the literary reputation. By the eighteenth century, the idealism attached to Sidney’s legend was supplanted by the female legend associated with the Arcadia’s Pamela, whose name, through Samuel Richardson’s novel, entered the history of the English novel.
Sidney and Money
Authors: Landreth David 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter applies recent biographical discoveries to move beyond conventional accounts of Sidney as either idealistically naïve or callowly profligate in money matters. Rather, it argues, Sidney’s self-conscious style interrogates his own courtly success in linking sophisticated performance to material advantage. The chapter reviews the material context in which Sidney and his family operated as Tudor elites. It recounts Sidney’s own history of income and expense, focusing on how his experience of credit and debt influences the style of his letters and his courtly pageantry around the crisis of Leicester’s marriage. It ends by considering sonnets from Astrophil and Stella that elaborate the complex relations of artistic production to money matters in Sidney’s mature style.
Sidney and His Family
Authors: Lamb Mary Ellen 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter considers Philip Sidney’s relationships with his kin-group, a family that was situated at the interesting junction between rising gentry on his father’s side, and established nobility on his mother’s. It looks at Sidney’s relations with his parents; with his powerful Dudley uncles, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and Ambrose, Earl of Warwick; with his siblings Robert and Mary Sidney Herbert, both practising poets themselves; as well as with other family members. For Sidney, as for many early moderns, the concept of family entailed the overlapping domains of affectionate bonding, social position in rank, political engagements, and a shared affiliation in descent or blood.
Sidney and Gender
Authors: Guy-Bray Stephen 
Published: January 2025

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This chapter is a study of masculinity in the Arcadia, focusing in particular on Pyrocles and Musidorus. In the Old Arcadia, the protagonists at times appear insufficiently or improperly masculine: one of them is dressed as a woman for most of the book and both seem to have forsaken typically masculine adventures. When Sidney revised the text into what we now call the New Arcadia, he worked hard to make Pyrocles and Musidorus conform more closely to Elizabethan gender norms and to the gender norms of heroic literature. The chapter considers a number of Sidney’s revisions, some large-scale and some small-scale.
Changing Patterns of Party Choice in Dutch Electoral Politics
Authors: van der Meer Tom , van der Brug Wouter 
Published: January 2025

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The Netherlands stands out for its high level of electoral volatility and electoral fragmentation. This chapter describes the main trends at the macro level and the dominant explanations for these trends at the micro level. Whereas the Dutch electoral system had enabled high levels of volatility and fragmentation since its conception in 1918, Dutch elections remained rather stable until the 1960s. Volatility and fragmentation have risen particularly since the 1990s into the 2000s, to levels that are among the highest in western and central Europe. On the one hand, rising volatility and fragmentation suggest a process of dealignment between voters and parties. Over time, the most stable and structural predictors of party choice have become less important, while short-term factors such as political issues and party leadership have become more important. Yet, ongoing stability underlies the high levels of volatility. Fragmentation has largely taken place within rather than between distinct clusters of parties. Voting can be best interpreted as a two-stage process: first, voters come to an (ideologically rather coherent) set of parties to consider, from which they then choose their final vote. The authors discuss the way in which these paradoxes—volatility and stability, fragmentation and consistency—raise challenges for the Dutch party system and offer fruitful opportunities for future research.
Change and Continuity in the Style of Dutch Politics since 1800
Authors: te Velde Henk 
Published: January 2025

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This contribution about the continuities and periodization of Dutch political history discusses political discussion, meeting, and ruling practices. Why and how people have passed on traditions and adjusted them is analysed for different historical periods. Transitions from one period to the next have been marked by dramatic events and each period has had its own distinctive practice and style of deliberating as well as its political problem-solving strategies. But overall, change has been incremental, not radical. At each transition, after a time of turmoil, the quiet, consensual traditions of deliberation have been reinvented in a modified shape. There may be an element of path dependency in the relative continuity of deliberative practices, but the decisive element is that each time, there have been clear incentives to continue the old practices, albeit in a new shape. If these incentives cease to exist, the traditions may end.
Sphingolipid remodeling in the plasma membrane is essential for osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis
Authors: Li Yong-Kang , Zhang Yu-Meng , Dai Guang-Yi , Chen Yi-Li , Chen Ding-Kang , Yao Nan 
Published: January 2025

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Osmotic stress caused by drought, salinity, or cold conditions is an important abiotic factor that decreases membrane integrity and causes cell death, thus decreasing plant growth and productivity. Remodeling cell membrane composition via lipid turnover can counter the loss of membrane integrity and cell death caused by osmotic stress. Sphingolipids are important components of eukaryotic membrane systems; however, how sphingolipids participate in plant responses to osmotic stress remains unclear. Here, we characterized the role of the glucosylceramidase (GCD) AtGCD1 (encoded by At1g33700) in sphingolipid remodeling and acclimation to osmotic stress in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). AtGCD1 to AtGCD4 are Arabidopsis homologs of human nonlysosomal GCD. We determined that AtGCD1 functions as a GCD and localizes to the plasma membrane (PM) and that recombinant AtGCD1 has no substrate preference for acyl chain length. Moreover, AtGCD1 and AtGCD3 (At4g10060) are essential for osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. In cells treated with mannitol, AtGCD1 and AtGCD3 hydrolyzed glucosylceramides to ceramides, leading to decreased glucosylceramide contents and increased glycosyl inositol phosphoceramide contents. We observed a substantial change in the molecular order of lipids and membrane tension at the PM of the Arabidopsis gcd1 gcd3 double mutant, indicating that GCDs compensate for changes in membrane properties to stabilize the membrane during osmotic stress. Notably, we found that loss of GCD1 and GCD3 enhanced plant resistance to beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua). Our results suggest that sphingolipid remodeling regulates the physicochemical properties of cellular membranes during plant stress responses.
The ASPARAGINE-RICH PROTEIN–LYST-INTERACTING PROTEIN5 complex regulates noncanonical AUTOPHAGY8 degradation in Arabidopsis
Authors: Wu Yanying , Zhu Kaikai , Chen Si , Xing Enzhen , Li Jiajia , Tian Wenqi , Gao Ming , Kong Jiaxin , Zheng Danni , Wang Xue , Zhou Weihong , Men Shuzhen , Liu Xinqi 
Published: January 2025

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The endocytic and autophagic pathways play important roles in abiotic stress responses and maintaining cellular homeostasis in plants. Asparagine-rich proteins (NRPs) are plant-specific, stress-responsive proteins that are involved in many abiotic stress-related signaling pathways. We previously demonstrated that NRP promotes PIN FORMED 2 (PIN2) vacuolar degradation to maintain PIN2 homeostasis under abscisic acid treatment in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, the molecular function and mechanism of NRP in cellular vesicle trafficking remain unknown. In this study, we report that NRP directly interacts with LIP5 and ATG8, critical components of the endocytic and autophagic pathways, respectively. Genetic analyses show that NRP overexpression rescues canonical autophagy defects in a LIP5-dependent manner. Cellular and biochemical evidence indicates that NRP–LIP5 recruits ATG8 to multivesicular bodies for further vacuolar degradation, implying that a novel NRP-mediated endocytic pathway is utilized to compensate for the canonical autophagy defects that occur during plant stress responses. These findings provide insights into the crosstalk between the endocytic and autophagic pathways and uncover a function of ATG8 distinct from its canonical role in autophagy. The mechanism revealed here confers an evolutionary advantage to plants and provides a molecular basis for breeding crops with greater stress tolerance.