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The Making of a Postrevolutionary Modern Dance Form
Authors: Reynoso Jose Luis 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter argues that the effects of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe influenced how debates over the relationship between aesthetics and politics in dance contributed to Mexico’s institutionalization of the revolution and a mestizo state. In so doing, the chapter discusses artistic and political ideologies central to developing a state-sponsored modern dance form that could be genuinely Mexican in character and universal in appeal. The discussion starts with Russian dancer Hipólito Zybin’s efforts to institutionalize professional dance training, exemplifying how dancers, government officials, and critics embraced different approaches to the relationship between (rigorous) dance technique and political ideology. It analyzes Mexican choreographers Nellie and Gloria Campobello’s revolutionary mass dances and compares US choreographers Anna Sokolow’s and Waldeen Falkenstein’s contrasting choreographic practices. These examples illuminate how mestizo modernisms simultaneously challenged and reproduced ideologies of universalism, racial neutrality, and exoticism in creating a Mexican modern dance form.
Coda
Authors: Reynoso Jose Luis 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This coda introduces the idea of contemporary mestizo modernisms relative to the concept of transnational nationalisms to illustrate the impact people of Mexican descent (dancers and non-dancers) have in shaping the United States as a nation. It summarizes the book’s key concepts and expands on debates that Anna Sokolow, Waldeen, and their collaborators had during and after the 1940s. An account of José Limón’s visit to Mexico City in the early 1950s emphasizes his background as an immigrant to discuss Mexico-US migration patterns and their role in developing notions of US modernity. A discussion about Primera Generación, an up-and-coming contemporary dance collective formed by first-generation Mexican American dancers, highlights their work’s explicit ethnoracial and class elements as a challenge to color-blind ideologies within the contemporary (experimental) dance tradition. It contextualizes their work within larger Latina/o/x/e communities shaping the United States as a nation while navigating racialization and social stratification processes.
The Exorcist Effect
Authors: Laycock Joseph P. , Harrelson Eric 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of The Exorcist Effect, in which religious beliefs and experiences inspire horror films that inspire subsequent beliefs and experiences, which in turn become fodder for more horror films. By way of illustration, it begins by discussing a sermon delivered by Cardinal John O’Connor in 1990, in which he read from the novel The Exorcist in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. This event heightened media interest in exorcism, resulting in a Catholic exorcism being filmed for network television. The chapter offers some preliminary evidence drawn from psychological studies suggesting that horror movies can influence religious belief. The chapter concludes by discussing the implications of this research and providing an outline of the book.
The Martin Cycle
Authors: Laycock Joseph P. , Harrelson Eric 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines the life of Malachi Martin and the influence of his 1976 book, Hostage to the Devil, on Christian demonology as well as horror films. Through his book, as well as numerous media appearances, Martin did much to persuade the public that exorcism is not a rare phenomenon, but actually common. In addition, this chapter argues that Martin was unfamiliar with Catholic traditions of exorcism and simply used his authority as a priest and his storytelling abilities to invent plausible details about demonology and exorcism. In doing so, he effectively rewrote the Catholic tradition of exorcism. Finally, Martin’s writings did much to link contemporary discussion of exorcism to a milieu of conspiracy theories. This chapter also traces how Martin’s ideas of exorcism have come to be used by Catholic authorities, mental health professionals, and horror movies.
Satanic Panic
Authors: Laycock Joseph P. , Harrelson Eric 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter explores the relationship between horror films and the Satanic Panic. It is generally acknowledged by historians that depictions of Satanism in horror films in the 1970s contributed to the Satanic Panic by familiarizing the public with images of Satanic cults and rituals. In particular, the phenomenon of “recovered memory” therapy led to many people recalling images from these films and mistaking them for repressed memories of Satanic ritual abuse. This chapter also examines how actual Satanists used horror films as a resource to design their own rituals and aesthetics. Finally, this chapter situates films about Satanism within a larger horror trope of “the religious other.” As such, it also considers “folk horror,” including such films as The Wicker Man.
Older Veterans
Authors: Fletcher Kari L. , Martin James A. , Black Eric R. , Dekel Rachel , Rooney Mariah , Albright David L. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractGiven the paucity of research on aging veterans, this chapter examines research and data from the United States, where more than 8.5 million veterans are age sixty-five or older. The authors highlight several important considerations—including military duties and service life, and post-service experiences—important when considering the well-being of veterans across their lifespan. During military service, individuals are exposed to an array of physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and/or spiritual stressors. Over time, stress is cumulative and may have both immediate and long-term implications for both physical and mental health and overall well-being. It is important to note that, even when not present earlier, trauma-related stressors may emerge and present themselves in the lives of older veterans. Finally, the authors discuss additional implications for practice, policy, and research. Within each section of the chapter, a case vignette is provided to support the discussion.
The Pleasure of theSonnets
Authors: Garrison John S. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter pursues two interrelated questions: what constitutes pleasure in Shakespeare’s poems and what pleasure does the reader derive from reading them? The discussion utilizes Roland Barthes’s The Pleasure of the Text as a heuristic framework for pursuing these questions, and the chapter takes Sonnet 18 as its central case study, as this poem captures an elevated state of love that is at heart indescribable. The discussion is enhanced by analysis of collective memory and the promise of bliss in Sonnet 55, Sonnet 122, and Sonnet 126. The discussion underscores how memory—both the speaker’s and the reader’s—cannot be disaggregated from the pleasures described in the poems.
‘Betweenness’
Authors: Ahnert Ruth , Ahnert Sebastian E. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
In his highly influential 1973 paper, ‘The strength of weak ties’, Mark Granovetter argued that people’s social worlds tend to be made up of strong and weak ties, but that weak ties are much more important for the transmission of information. Chapter 3 explores the extent to which we can identify such weak links in the transmission of early modern intelligence with a particular off-the-shelf algorithm: ‘betweenness centrality’. Betweenness centrality reveals that the quickest routes through the Tudor epistolary network are both via central government hubs and bridging figures. By using a second network metric, the degree of a node, we can sort the bridges from the hubs. As a result this chapter is able to demonstrate how the key figures for the transmission of information, both across communities and geographical remove, are a heterogeneous body of figures who served diplomatic functions both formal and informal, including international intellectuals, bishops and reformers, merchants, military leaders, and soldiers.
Participatory Science for Equitable Urban Biodiversity Research and Practice
Authors: Perkins Deja J. , Nichols Lauren M. , Dunn Robert R. 
Published: October 2023

AbstractCitizen, community, and other forms of participatory science are incredibly valuable tools for documenting the natural world—especially in cities—while simultaneously involving the public in the process of science. This engagement is critical for building an awareness and sense of belonging to nature. However, crowdsourced data that result from citizen science are invariably structured by the biases in who does and does not participate in these studies. For example, breeding bird observations tend to be disproportionately made by White, relatively affluent participants that are 400 times more likely than chance to work in STEM fields. These observers tend to observe the places they live and frequent, more so than other parts of cities. Accordingly, our understanding of the diversity and distribution of urban biodiversity is spatially biased by the geographic structuring of race and wealth in cities, as well as the racial and socioeconomic nonrandomness of who participates in crowdsourced studies. This work reviews these spatial racial gaps, focusing on data from across diverse cities. Further, it considers the historic factors in the US that led to the spatial structuring of race in modern American cities. The work concludes by detailing some of the approaches that can be used to account for the biases in our understanding of urban biodiversity, while identifying the opportunities that are implicit in seeing that diversity in a less biased way. It highlights the kinds of discoveries that are possible by resolving urban/rural, spatial-racial, and global gaps in datasets.
Fiscal State Aid Law and Harmful Tax Competition in the European Union
Authors: Kyriazis Dimitrios 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe theme of this book is the relationship between harmful tax competition measures and prohibited fiscal State aid. It aims to present a targeted examination of the use of State aid rules against national tax measures, for example tax schemes and tax rulings, following the adoption of the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation in 1997. The fiscal State aid decisions and judgments covered include Commission decisions and ECJ judgments of the (early) 2000s, which are labelled the ‘first wave’, and recent Commission decisions and investigations into tax schemes and individual tax rulings, most notably the Apple, Fiat, Starbucks, and Amazon investigations, which are labelled the ‘second wave’. The characteristics and common threads of each wave are presented, similarities and differences between the two waves are dissected, and their nexus to the EU’s fight against harmful tax competition is explored. It is argued that an important factor connecting the two waves is the link they share to the fight against harmful tax competition. It is also maintained that the first wave cases that were linked to this fight have substantially influenced State aid doctrine, and have also had the effect of rendering State aid rules a more effective tool against harmful tax competition. This trend would have continued had the ECJ endorsed the Commission’s novel and creative approach in the second wave of fiscal State aid decisions. This approach is not legally sound, and was thus correctly rejected by the Grand Chamber of the ECJ in November 2022.
Early EU and OECD Initiatives against Harmful Tax Competition
Authors: Kyriazis Dimitrios 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter examines how the EU and the OECD had initially conducted their campaign against harmful tax competition by framing it as a collective action problem, how their strategy has evolved through time, and what conclusions can be drawn from it. The purpose of this chapter is to place the EU’s early fiscal State aid initiatives, the Commission’s first fiscal State aid wave, in their broader political context, so that the way in which State aid rules interact with soft law instruments and EU legislative measures can become evident. This is important for a variety of reasons, most notably because this interaction is key in understanding the exact points of contact between State aid doctrine, on the one hand, and the early initiatives by the EU and the OECD, on the other.
In Praise of Bad Prose
Authors: Knapper Daniel 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter explores how Renaissance humanists resolved the problems and apparent weaknesses of Paul’s style in their biblical scholarship by performing what may be called “recuperative readings” of his texts. It shows that, in their efforts to defend its coherence and skill, humanists associated Paul’s style with four grammatical and rhetorical forms—verbal omission (ellipsis), inverted syntax (hyperbaton), digressive sentence structure (anacoluthon), and Hebraisms—and they inscribed these forms with positive rhetorical effects, particularly power, speed, and profundity. After highlighting the prominence of the forms in general discussions of Paul’s style, the chapter considers the various arguments and metaphors used by humanists to justify their rhetorical integrity and aesthetic quality. Broadly speaking, humanists transform Paul’s stylistic weaknesses into strengths in order to defend the integrity and authority of Paul’s texts, as well as Paul’s character as a sacred, divinely inspired author.
Toward Enlightenment
Authors: Knapper Daniel 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe concluding chapter explores the broad conceptual changes that Paul’s style underwent in the latter half of the seventeenth century. It shows that larger developments in the practice of biblical criticism—and the effects of these developments on theologies of scripture—led to changing conceptions of and attitudes toward Paul’s style among leading figures on the shifting intellectual and cultural landscapes of early Enlightenment Europe. Such changes emerged most immediately in the works of heterodox theologians and philosophers, who developed new critiques of Paul’s style by reforming or else rejecting the theoretical premises upon which humanist discussions of it were based. Other critics and poets continued to support Paul’s eloquence, particularly orthodox Protestants, though they too worked to reimagine Paul’s style for early Enlightenment readers, specifically by associating its effects with emerging conceptions of literary-aesthetic sublimity.
The Logical Renaissance
Authors: Ettenhuber Katrin 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThe Logical Renaissance is the first substantial account of early modern English literature’s relationship with logic. Logic was at the centre of early modern education: during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, university students spent at least two years of their degree studying it, and many grammar school students encountered it in the final phase of their training. The book aims to help readers understand the central terms and concepts of early modern logic, and to show how they can be found in some of the most important works of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature. The Logical Renaissance argues that logic played a crucial role in the processes of literary composition and reading: it aided writers in the discovery of material and taught them how to arrange it, while readers drew on the rules of logic to develop a structured understanding of texts. The book covers a broad range of early modern writing (including epic and lyric poetry, drama, and religious prose) by Andrewes, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser. It suggests that the influence of rhetoric on early modern writing has been overstated, and that greater attention to logic will give us a fuller and richer understanding of literary production in the period.
Sex and the Disjunctive Syllogism
Authors: Ettenhuber Katrin 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter investigates the applications of logical terms and processes in the poetry of John Donne. After an analysis of logic teaching at Oxford, where Donne attended university in the 1580s, the chapter addresses three different aspects of logic use in Donne’s works. It focuses on the role of logical disputation in the Holy Sonnets, of the Aristotelian categories in the verse letters, and of the hypothetical syllogism in the Songs and Sonets. In the three literary examples discussed in the chapter, Donne’s speakers invoke the formal mechanisms of logic to impose control on threatening or confusing feelings. Sometimes this process is presented as a moral necessity; at other times, however, Donne is careful to draw attention to the limitations of this strategy, while also acknowledging the temptations of managing complex emotions through comfortingly predictable structures.
Andrewes, Spenser, and Reforming the Arts of Discourse
Authors: Ettenhuber Katrin 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter turns from the first part of logic (dedicated to the invention or discovery of material) to the second part, which was preoccupied with the formal structures of argument in which the materials of discourse could be presented. It uses the writings of Philip Melanchthon to show how logical methods of dividing and arranging arguments became crucial weapons in the religious controversies of the mid- and late sixteenth century. After introducing the main elements of Melanchthon’s logic, the chapter presents two literary case studies that illustrate the impact of his method in Elizabethan England. Through an analysis of Spenser’s engagement with the so-called devil’s syllogism, the chapter demonstrates the importance of sound reasoning in the face of religious despair. Lastly, the chapter examines Lancelot Andrewes’ recourse to logical techniques of division and definition to resolve conflicts of conscience.
Von Neumann’s Hilbert Space Formalism
Authors: Duncan Anthony , Janssen Michel 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter covers the completion of the formalism of quantum mechanics and its statistical interpretation in the first two installments of a remarkable trilogy of work by von Neumann in 1927. In the first, von Neumann introduces the modern Hilbert space formalism and demonstrates the equivalence of matrix and wave mechanics by showing that they are just two different instantiations of Hilbert space, one being the space of square-summable sequences, the other being the space of square integrable functions. In the second, drawing on work by von Mises on the foundations of probability theory, he provides a careful formulation of the statistical interpretation of this formalism. In doing so, he introduces such staples of modern quantum mechanics as density operators characterizing quantum statistical ensembles and the distinction between pure and mixed states.
Conclusion: Arch and Scaffold
Authors: Duncan Anthony , Janssen Michel 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis chapter elaborates and reflects on the authors’ use of the “arch-and-scaffold” metaphor to characterize the transition from classical mechanics, via the old quantum theory, to modern quantum mechanics. It discusses in detail why this metaphor does justice to both continuous and discontinuous aspects of this transition, as well the various ways in which the metaphor applies to the contents of both volumes of the work. It contrasts the account of this transition based on the “arch-and-scaffold” metaphor with an account based on Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm shift. This shift occurs, resulting in the understanding in which the continuous aspects of the transition from classical to quantum mechanics are lost.
Introduction
Authors: Aston Nigel 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
An introduction to the book, which is laid out in three interconnected sections: ‘Intellectual Presence’, ‘Institutional Presence and Interactions’, and ‘Cultural Constructions, connections, and tensions’. It is a consideration of a major institution and its place in the life of Britain and beyond, assessing what Oxford University was supposed to do, what it did, identifying cultural connections, and pondering the extent to which it may be considered ‘enlightened’. The University was not condemned to marginality in eighteenth-century national and international life because of its apparent reluctance to introduce a modernising curriculum, or endorse progressive politics. It had a capacity for adaptation to an unsuspected degree, with a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that should not be underestimated. Throughout this period, its existence was bound up with the defence and perpetuation of the Established Church, but only from the 1760s were its loyalist instincts uncompromisingly given to the Hanoverian dynasty.
Oxford and British academic contexts after the Glorious Revolution
Authors: Aston Nigel 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 2 provides an overview of Oxford within British academia as a whole in the decades following the 1688 Revolution, when the support of the monarchy that the Church had enjoyed in the early 1680s was tempered. It qualifies and, to a degree, repudiates, the prevailing view that Oxford was a Tory bastion unable to adapt to the late Stuart and early Hanoverian order. Scholarship in history and the classics flourished; the Bodleian Library received visitors from across Europe; the University was substantially rebuilt as a ‘new Athens’. The chapter argues that if Oxford at first adjusted awkwardly to the new dispensation, then that was no less the case for all British universities, especially those in Scotland where direct government obtrusion upon their affairs was more conspicuous. And the traffic between universities north of the border and Oxford gave zest to the latter’s intellectual life through the transmission of Newtonian mathematics.
The defence of Christian belief and the Church of England
Authors: Aston Nigel 
Published: October 2023

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The third chapter, on the defence of the Christian faith in its Anglican expression, is foundational to the whole study. The intellectual life of the University pivoted on this theme. The defence of the University was a defence of the whole Church of England as the University was the cornerstone of the Church-state polity. The chapter covers the various proposals for new translations of the Bible that engaged Oxford, the importance of preaching across the University, plus the increasing importance of preparing men for ordination. The variety of Oxford voices is also shown: Methodism had its origins here and Christian orthodoxy was regularly challenged. From the 1760s, Oxford Anglicanism was committed to the Hanoverians and ready for the challenges of the French Revolution in which University members displayed a persuasive rhetorical ingenuity in protecting the faith upheld by the Established Church. Oxford was primary in helping to keep the country recognisably and corporately Christian in this century.
The University as seen from outside
Authors: Aston Nigel 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 10, the first of three under the heading of ‘Cultural Constructions, Connections, and Tensions’ looks at the University as seen from the outside. It first treats the depiction of Oxford in literature and art. Then it examines the perspective of Protestant Dissenters, particularly vocal in expressing their disdain for Oxford; next the varying attitudes of graduates of other universities with a view to distinguishing the genuinely critical from good-hearted academic one-upmanship. The fourth category for notice is that of insiders who were technically non-matriculated outsiders, notably college servants, as well as graduates such as Edward Gibbon, who wanted to position themselves at a remove and had the capacity to damage the standing of the University. The presence of women across Oxford receives extended emphasis. The city could function as a relatively open cultural space, especially on some academic occasions when women had an active consumerist and spectatorial role.