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Richard Trexler (1932 – 8 March 2007)[1] was a professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York.[2] 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.^{[clarification needed]} 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.

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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 United States, offered in the spring of 2006.

Publications

• 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).
• "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.
• Trexler RC (2003) Reliving Golgotha: the passion play of Iztapalapa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

References

External links

• Works by or about Richard Trexler in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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