Richard C. Trexler is Professor of History at Binghamton University.
A remarkable book.... One of the most original and absorbing to
appear for some time.... In Trexler's hands old clues and
apparently antiquarian learning have been transformed into a
powerful new vision of society in Florence (and, by implication, in
other late medieval urban communities).... An enviable achievement.
Few academic historians have it in them to write a book such as
Public Life, at once a creative whole (one which will outlive many
of its particular propositions) and a rare stimulus to further
research.
*Journal of Modern History*
Immensely stimulating and useful.... A rich mine of ritual lore
with a practicality inexhaustible vein of arresting insights on the
role of ceremony in a community.... Trexler brings to his ritual
actors a forceful constructive and critical intelligence,
extraordinary resources of imagination and energy, and a
wonderfully perceptive and committed appreciation for both the
creative play and the moral purposefulness of their
performances.
*Art Bulletin*
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