Richard Trexler (1932 – 8 March 2007) was a professor of

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at Binghamton University, State University of New York.Inside Binghamton University
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, 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

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in his honor where renowned scholars in

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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

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, offered in the spring of 2006.

Publications

*''The Journey of the

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. Meanings in History of a

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Story'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). *''

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and

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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 Florence ( it, Firenze) weathered the decline of the Western Roman Empire to emerge as a financial hub of Europe, home to several banks including that of the politically powerful Medici family. The city's wealth supported the development of a ...

'' (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

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'' (Peter Lang, 1989). * "

Historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

Sacred or Profane? Reverence and Profanity in the Study of Early Modern

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," 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

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. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

References

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