Richard Trexler

Richard Trexler (1932 – 8 March 2007) 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.^{[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.

• "Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America," in Infamous desire: Male homosexuality in colonial Latin America, ed, Pete Sigal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• Reliving Golgotha: the passion play of Iztapalapa (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
• "Making the American Berdache: Choice or Constraint?" Journal of Social History 35 (2002).
• 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).
• Gender rhetorics : postures of dominance and submission in history (Binghamton, N.Y. : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994).
• 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).
• 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 (Roma : Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1987).
• "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.
• "Correre la terra. Collective insults in the late Middle Ages," Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Moyen âge - Temps modernes, 96 (1984).
• Public Life in Renaissance Florence, Studies in Social Discontinuity (Academic Press, 1980. Reprinted: Cornell University Press, 1991).
• "Lorenzo de' Medici and Savonarola, Martyrs for Florence," Renaissance quarterly, 31 (1978)
• "Measures against Water Pollution in Fifteenth-Century Florence," Viator 5 (1974).
• The spiritual power: Republican Florence under interdict (Leiden: Brill, 1974).
• Synodal law in Florence and Fiesole, 1306-1518 (Citta del Vaticano : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1971).
• "Rome On The Eve Of The Great Schism," Speculum 42 (1967).

See also:

• Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, ed. Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008).