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.
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