Richard Trexler


Richard Trexler was a professor of history at Binghamton University, State University of New York. A specialist of the Renaissance, Reformation of Italy, and Behaviorist History, Trexler had over fifty published works. He was best known for revolutionizing the field of public life as historically significant. To celebrate his career and retirement, Binghamton University on April 14, 2004, had a symposium in his honor where renowned scholars in Early Modern Europe spoke on his behalf.
Trexler retired from the faculty of Binghamton University a year before his death. His final course was a history of Child Abuse in Europe and the Child abuse in [the United States|United States], offered in the spring of 2006.

Publications

  • "Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America," in Infamous desire: Male homosexuality in colonial Latin America, ed, Pete Sigal.
  • Reliving Golgotha: the passion play of Iztapalapa.
  • "Making the American Berdache: Choice or Constraint?" Journal of Social History 35.
  • The Journey of the Magi. Meanings in History of a Christian Story.
  • Sex and Conquest: Gender Construction and Political Order at the Time of the European Conquest of the Americas.
  • Gender rhetorics : postures of dominance and submission in history.
  • Dependence in Context In Renaissance Florence.
  • Power & Dependence in Renaissance Florence, vol. I, II, III .
  • Naked Before the Father. The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi.
  • Church and community 1200-1600 : studies in the history of Florence and New Spain.
  • "Historiography Sacred or Profane? Reverence and Profanity in the Study of Early Modern Religion," in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800, ed. K. von Greyerz, 243–269.
  • "Correre la terra. Collective insults in the late Middle Ages," Mélanges de l'école française de Rome. Moyen âge - Temps modernes, 96.
  • Public Life in Renaissance Florence, Studies in Social Discontinuity.
  • "Lorenzo de' Medici and Savonarola, Martyrs for Florence," Renaissance quarterly, 31
  • "Measures against Water Pollution in Fifteenth-Century Florence," Viator 5.
  • The spiritual power: Republican Florence under interdict.
  • Synodal law in Florence and Fiesole, 1306-1518.
  • "Rome On The Eve Of The Great Schism," Speculum 42.
See also:
  • Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, ed. Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke.