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

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Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas. Essays in Memory of Richard C. TrexlerOverview Richard C. Trexler (1932 2007) was one of our eras 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

“The Disappearance of the Trojan Legend in the Historiography of Venice”

and is the founder of the Centre de Recherche Culture et société en Italie aux XVE

often in contrast to their intended goals

Jacqueline Murray

Historiography

Native Evangelists in Northwestern New Spain — Jason Dyck

The Fables of Aesop

appealed to the authority of classical and medieval philosophers in complex and nuanced ways to redefine the idea of womanhood in a changing society

“The Theatre of Friendship in Early Modern French Memoirs: The Case of Pontis

Why things that are unpleasant to the senses and to human desires are also displeasing to the intellect

“Rembrandt’s Ten Commandments: Pluralism and the Religious Imagination”

Francine Michaud – “The Meaning of Servanthood in Private Households: The Case of Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Marseille”