Religion in Social Context in Europe and America, 1200-1700

by Trexler, Richard C.

• ISBN13: 9780866982801
• ISBN10: 0866982809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Mrts

Summary

This volume brings together twenty-two papers by Richard Trexler and reflects the trajectory of the author's career and various interests. Two of the papers are original works, and eight others appear here in English for the first time. Over time, a sharp turn from political to cultural and social history is evident, even though a dominant concern with the relationship between dependency, religion, and power has persisted. This compilation should be of great interest to scholars of Italian, general European, and conquest American history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Roman Catholicism
Diocesan Synods in Late Medieval Italy	p. 1
A Medieval Census: The Liber Divisionis	p. 36
Rome on the Eve of the Great Schism	p. 42
God-Making
The Gender and Number of the Evangelical Magi	p. 73
Dreams of the Three Kings	p. 90
Triumph and Mourning in North Italian Magi Art	p. 115
Ludic Life in New Spain: The Emperor and His Three Kings	p. 151
Saint-Making
Francis of Assisi, His Mother's Son	p. 171
The Stigmatized Body of Francis of Assisi: Conceived, Processed, Disappeared	p. 183
Florentine Theatre, 1280-1500: A Checklist of Performances and Institutions	p. 227
From the Mouths of Babes: Christianization by Children in Sixteenth-Century New Spain	p. 250
At the Right Hand of God: Organization of Life by the Holy Dead in New Spain	p. 293
Religious Structures
Legitimating Prayer Gestures in the Twelfth Century: The De Penitentia of Peter the Chanter	p. 335
Dressing and Undressing Images: An Analytic Sketch	p. 374
The Construction of Regional Solidarities in Traditional Europe	p. 409
Bending over Backwards: Prayer Posture and Sexual Posture in Traditional Europe and America	p. 430
The Talking Image: An Attempt at Typology, Using Spanish Sources of the Sixteenth Century	p. 447
Historiography Sacred or Profane? Reverence and Profanity in the Study of Early Modern Religion	p. 477
Religious Dynamics: The Gender Component
Gendering Jesus Crucified	p. 511
An Early Printed Text Against Homosexual Behavior (c. 1485)	p. 532
Dressing Like a Woman: The Case of the Berdache	p. 550
Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Prehispanic America	p. 553
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