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Richard C. Trexler
On leave 2002-2003

Bartle Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Franfurt am Main
Renaissance and reformation, Italy, behavioral history

Office: WD 140  
Phone: (607) 777-6602 E-mail: trexler@binghamton.edu

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

  • Early Renaissance Europe
  • Reformation and Renaissance Europe
  • History of Human Behavior
  • European Witch Craze

Recent or current graduate courses:

  • Renaissance Festivals*
  • US/European Research Seminar
  • Early Modern Europe: Colloquium
  • Renaissance and Reformation

*Courses with an asterisk are also open to undergraduates.

Significant Publications

Books:

  • The Journey of the Magi. Meanings in History of a Christian Story (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
  • Sex and Conquest: Gender Construction and Political Order at the Time of the European Conquest of the Americas (Polity Press and Cornell University Press, 1995).
  • Dependence in Context In Renaissance Florence (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994).
  • Power & Dependence in Renaissance Florence, vol. I (The Women...), II(The Children...), III(The Workers of Renaissance Florence) (Binghamton: MRTS, 1993).
  • Public Life in Renaissance Florence, Studies in Social Discontinuity (Academic Press, 1980. Reprinted: Cornell University Press, 1991).
  • Naked Before the Father. The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi (Peter Lang, 1989).
  • Church and Community, 1200-1600. Studies in the History of Florence and new Spain (Storia e Letteratura. Raccolta di Studi e Testi, no. 168: Rome, 1987), (coll. of 13 articles).
  • The Christian at Prayer. An Illustrated Prayer Manual Attributed to Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Binghamton, 1987).
  • The Libro Cerimoniale of the Florentine Republic by Francesco Filarete and Angelo Manfidi. Introduction and Text (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, no. 165. Droz: Geneva, 1978).
  • The Spiritual Power. Republican Florence under Interdict (E.J. Brill, 1974).

Articles:

  • "Gendering Jesus Crucified," in Iconography at the Crossroads, ed. B. Cassidy (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), 107-20.
  • "Triumph and Mourning in North Italian Magi Art," in Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy, ed. C. Roenberg (Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1990), 38-66.
  • "Legitimizing Prayer Gestures in the Twelfth Century: The De Penitentia of Peter the Chanter," in Gestures, ed. J.C. Schmitt (Paris, 1984), (History and Anthropology 1, 97-126).
  • "We Think, The Act: Clerical Readings of Missionary Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Mexico," in Understanding Popular Culture: Europe from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, ed. S. Kaplan (Berlin, 1984), 189-227.
  • "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 (London, 1984), 243-269.
  • "Neighbours and Comrades: The Revolutionaries of Florence, 1378," Social Analysis, no. 14 (December, 1983), 53-106.
  • "A Widow's Home of the Renaissance: The Orbatello of Florence," in Old Age in Preindustrial Society, ed. P. Stearns (New York: Routledge, 1982), 119-149.
  • "From the Mouths of Babes. Christianization by Children in Sixteenth-Century New Spain," in Religious Organization and Religious Experience, ed. J. Davis (Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph 21: London and New York, 1982), 115-136.
  • "Aztec Priests for Christian Altars: The Theory and Practice of Reverence in New Spain," in Scienze, Credenze e Livelli Di Cultura (Florence: Olschki, 1982), 175-196.
  • "Two Captains and Three Kings: New Light on the Medici Chapel," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 4 (1981), pp. 99-177 (with M. Lewis) [reprinted in Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English (New York, 1995), W. Wallace (ed.), vol. 3, 197-283].
  • "The Episcopal Constitutions of Antoninus of Flornce," Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Biblioteken 59 (1979), 244-272.
  • "The Magi Enter Florence: The Ubriachi of Florence and Venice," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, n.s. 1 (1978), 127-218.
  • "Lorenzo de' Medici and Savanarola, Martyrs for Florence," Renaissance Quarterly 31 (1978), 293-308.
  • "Honor Among Thieves: The Trust Function of the Urban Clergy in the Florentine Republic," in Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, eds. S. Bertelli and G. Ramakus (Florence: Sansoni 1978), 1: 317-334.
  • "Ritual in Florence: Adolescence and Salvation in the Renaissance," in The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion, ed. C. Trinkaus with H. Oberman (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974), 200-264.
  • "Ritual Behavior in Renaissance Florence: The Setting," Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. 4 (1973), 98-116 [reprinted in: Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance, B. Kohl and A. Andrews Smith, (Lexington, Mass., 1995), 393-402].
  • "Charity and the Defense of Urban Elites in the Italian Communes," in The Rich, the Well Born, and the Powerful," ed. F. Jaher (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), 64-109 (subsequent paperback edition).
  • "The Foundlings of Florence, 1395-1455," History of Childhood Quarterly 1 (1973), 259-284.
  • "Florentine Religious Experience: The Sacred Image," Studies in the Renaissance 19 (1972), 7-41.
  • Synodal Law in Florence and Fiesole, 1306-1518 (Studi e Testi, no. 268: Vatican City, 1971).
  • "Rome on the Eve of the Great Schism," Speculum 42 (1967), 489-509.