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@TimHitchcock #nacbs12 Still implies a perpetual balancing, despite shifting contours. Can we know it all weighs up similarly over time?
@AlexShepard10 #nacbs12. I would go for a metaphor from modern evolutionary biology, perhaps dynamic equilibrium to capture change
NACBS after-thought: patriarchal pendulum actually the same as equilibrium. Anyone got a better metaphor for power (im)balances? #nacbs12
Back in Boston after v. exciting weekend at #nacbs12. All but last panel tremendously interesting.
RT @TimHitchcock: #nacbs12. Andrew. Duelling in 1st half of the 18th c., on the stage restricted to comedies.
Great to see all of you at #nacbs12 | Looking forward to next year in Portland
RT @TimHitchcock: #nacbs12. Andrew. Duelling in 1st half of the 18th c., on the stage restricted to comedies.
Au revoir Montreal. #nacbs12
And another of Marie Reine du Monde. #nacbs2012 http://t.co/4V7yQVGv
Fantastic view of Montreal from conference hotel. #nacbs2012 http://t.co/2Rn7WCt4
Thanks to @TimHitchcock for tweeting that session on 18C theatre. Am sorry to have missed it. #nacbs12
#nacbs12. The last paper in the last session is winding to a theatrical conclusion, along with the conference itself.
#nacbs12. Taylor. I am wondering if staging patriotism in the 90s reflects a privatisation of nat. Celebration?
#nacbs12. David Taylor on staging war, 1793-1801
#nacbs12. Brown. I am wondering if we should think benefit performances as like Harlem rent parties?
#nacbs12. Brown. Benefit performances involved a powerful role of 'friends' to obscure financial role.
#nacbs12. Brown. Drury Lane & covent Garden advertised over 100 benefit performances in one year
#nacbs12. Brown. Focussing on benefit theatre performances. Discussing role of patronage. The support of 'friends'
#nacbs12. Susan Brown kicking off on theatres and urban trade.
Caroline Elkins on destruction and hiding of colonial Kenyan docs. #nacbs12 see also http://t.co/TneKEWiz
#nacbs12. Andrew. Concluding on the role of the newspapers as amplifiers to the role of the courts on regulating duelling.
#nacbs12. Andrew. Press reporting of duels grows substantially in the second half of the century.
#nacbs12. Andrew. Duelling in 1st half of the 18th c., on the stage restricted to comedies.
#nacbs12 Andrew. Adopting a wide definition of duelling including crimes of event in hot blood.
#nacbs12. Andrew. Comparing representations of duels in newspapers and on the stage.
#nacbs12. Donna Andrew. On Duelling on the stage!
And that's me done. Off to PHL en route to LHR so I'm going to miss the final session. Very enjoyable #nacbs12.
Todd: Patriarchal pendulum instead of patriarchal equilibrium a good way to deal with contradictions in women's status #nacbs12
Todd's comments and discussion moving into question about the changing nature of partriarchy in e-m and modern period #nacbs12
Wright: decline in privacy of the family starts with Tudors and ends with Shelley decision #nacbs12
Wright: Parens Patriae was established to increase jurisdiction over moral guardianship (non-property aspects of childrearing) #nacbs12
Wright: Expansion of guardian's role over the child's life went along with a greater assertion of jurisdiction over this role #nacbs12
Wright: After 1660 trusts allowed protection of property for the beneficiary, but did not allow for intervention on moral matters #nacbs12
Wright: Increasing ability of state to intervene in the family over the course of the 18th century #nacbs12
Wright is being really broad ranging, now taking about Tudor land inheritance law, to build an argument about privacy of family #nacbs12
Wright is rehearsing traditional argument of rise of nuclear & private family during early modern period before disputing it #nacbs12
Wright: How was the rhetoric of public and private being used to define the relationship between the family and the state? #nacbs12
Wiesser: Attentive to both religion and gender in the configurations of pain and narratives #nacbs12 #historyofemotions
Wright starts her child custody law discussion with Shelley and his marital misbehavior #nacbs12
Next up: Danaya Wright, From Trust to Parens Patriae: Public Patriarchy and Family Law in the Eighteenth-Century Chancery #nacbs12
Kippen: Portion that women brought marriage began to be seen as gift to husband, so carried no obligation of debt #nacbs12
Wiesser: dormer compares her marriage to being uponthe rack, and holiness of matrimony as something to endure #nacbs12 #historyofemotions
Kippen: Courts invested liability for maintenance with the husband since married women could not be held financially liable #nacbs12
Wiesser: Pain offerd a spirtually virtuous means for redeeming failed gender roles. #nacbs12 #historyofemotions
Kippen: Over 17C shift to stricter interp of couverture, had effect of obliterating women's financial responsibilities to offspring #nacbs12
Wiesser: how is bodily pain performed on the sickbed? #nacbs12 martyrdom shaped by Foxe, and gave men and women a set of metaphors on pain
Olivia weisser gender and martyrdom and pain in 17th C england #nacbs12
Stephens: language of martyrdom, toleration, and persecution "toolkit" for dealing with life in revolutionary England #nacbs12
Kippen: Clause in this law could allow courts to require that relations maintain children if parents were indigent #nacbs12
Kippen: Obligation to maintain children could fall to the grandparents under the Elizabethan Poor Law which was passed in 1601 #nacbs12