Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler

Richard C. Trexler (1932-2007) was one of our era’s most original historians. His modest description of himself as “a social historian with an interest in cultural history” hardly does justice to a career that covered fields as diverse as church history, urban history, historical anthropology and sociology, art history, gender and sexuality studies, and early modern Latin America. The seventeen articles in this collection are inspired by Trexler’s scholarly achievements and pay tribute to a scholar who never tired of pursuing new questions, overturning received assumptions, and sharing his enthusiasm for research with his colleagues and students.

Contents:
Edward Muir, “Trexleriana: An Introduction “
Part One: Renaissance Italy
Karen-edis Barzman, “Islamic North Africa in Trecento Florence: Costume in the Assisi and Bardi Chapel Frescoes of Francis in Egypt “
Lyn A. Blanchfield, “Le Piagnoni: The Weeping Women of Savonarola “
Konrad Eisenbichler, “Adolescence and Damnation: Sin and Youth in Florentine Confraternities “
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “The Devil in Prison “
Michael Rocke, “‘Whoorish boyes’: Male Prostitution in Early Modern Italy and the Spurious ‘Second Part’ of Antonio Vignali’s La Cazzaria “
John M. Najemy, “Alberti on Love: Musings on Private Transgression and Public Discipline “
Dana E. Stewart, “Poetic and Scientific Discourse in the Early Italian Lyric “
Part Two: Early Modern Political and Religious Rituals
Peter J. Arnade, “Spanish Furies: The Siege and Sack of Cities in the Dutch Revolt “
Samuel K. Cohn Jr., “The Power of Flags in Late Medieval Popular Revolt “
Klaus Schreiner, “Our Lady of Victory: Images of Mary within Military Contexts in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity “
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, “Empty See and Ritual Pillaging During the Middle Ages “
Part Three: Gender and Collective Representations in the Americas
Louise M. Burkhart, “Humour in Baroque Nahuatl Drama “
Cecelia F. Klein, “The Aztec Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca and Its Implications for Christ Crucified “
Pete Sigal, “The Perfumed Man: Sacrifice, Penetration, and the Feminization of the Male Body in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica”
Part Four: Nationalism and Historiography in the Modern World
Anthony Molho, “Exile and the Values of Western Civilization: German Jewish Historians and American Studies on the Renaissance”
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, “Anti-Hegemonic Nationalism: The Dante Centenary of 1865”