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Author: Lawrence Buck
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Imprint: Truman State University Press
Volume: 13
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781612481067
ISBN 10: 161248106
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 March 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Of all the curious, horrifying cast of monstrous characters known to early-modern Europeans, the Papal Ass was certainly one of the strangest. Word of its dredging up from the River Tiber in 1496 traveled a circuitous route through sixteenth-century Europe, helping to make the famous images that Cranach and others fashioned to depict it into readily recognizable pieces of the eras mental furniture. Lawrence Bucks dogged attempts to cast light upon the trail that knowledge and exploitation of this event followed reveals a great deal about the ways in which religious, scientific, and preternatural knowledge got around in pre-modern society. -- Philip Soergel This book is a fascinating and meticulous study of antipapal polemics from the early Reformation to the Elizabethan religious settlement. Lawrence Buck skillfully analyzes the iconography of the various images of a grotesque monstrosity that had been discovered after the Tiber River flooded Rome, and traces the uses they were put to by reformers including Philip Melanchthon's 1523 pamphlet, The Pope-Ass Explained. With abundant illustrations, Bucks monograph delineates the various elements used to illustrate the monster and its connection to the papal antichrist. Buck also ties the Roman Monster into the discourse of the Reformation including Luthers use of it, its appearance in Wonder-book literature, its use in polemics as part of the French Wars of Religion and the Elizabethan Reformation. This intriguing book should attract widespread interest from Reformation scholars. It is one of the freshest and most original books to have appeared in several years. -- Jonathan Zophy
"""Of all the curious, horrifying cast of monstrous characters known to early-modern Europeans, the Papal Ass was certainly one of the strangest. Word of its dredging up from the River Tiber in 1496 traveled a circuitous route through sixteenth-century Europe, helping to make the famous images that Cranach and others fashioned to depict it into readily recognizable pieces of the eras mental furniture. Lawrence Bucks dogged attempts to cast light upon the trail that knowledge and exploitation of this event followed reveals a great deal about the ways in which religious, scientific, and preternatural knowledge got around in pre-modern society."" -- Philip Soergel ""This book is a fascinating and meticulous study of antipapal polemics from the early Reformation to the Elizabethan religious settlement. Lawrence Buck skillfully analyzes the iconography of the various images of a grotesque monstrosity that had been discovered after the Tiber River flooded Rome, and traces the uses they were put to by reformers including Philip Melanchthon's 1523 pamphlet, The Pope-Ass Explained. With abundant illustrations, Bucks monograph delineates the various elements used to illustrate the monster and its connection to the papal antichrist. Buck also ties the Roman Monster into the discourse of the Reformation including Luthers use of it, its appearance in Wonder-book literature, its use in polemics as part of the French Wars of Religion and the Elizabethan Reformation. This intriguing book should attract widespread interest from Reformation scholars. It is one of the freshest and most original books to have appeared in several years."" -- Jonathan Zophy"
Of all the curious, horrifying cast of monstrous characters known to early-modern Europeans, the Papal Ass was certainly one of the strangest. Word of its dredging up from the River Tiber in 1496 traveled a circuitous route through sixteenth-century Europe, helping to make the famous images that Cranach and others fashioned to depict it into readily recognizable pieces of the eras mental furniture. Lawrence Bucks dogged attempts to cast light upon the trail that knowledge and exploitation of this event followed reveals a great deal about the ways in which religious, scientific, and preternatural knowledge got around in pre-modern society. Philip Soergel This book is a fascinating and meticulous study of antipapal polemics from the early Reformation to the Elizabethan religious settlement. Lawrence Buck skillfully analyzes the iconography of the various images of a grotesque monstrosity that had been discovered after the Tiber River flooded Rome, and traces the uses they were put to by reformers including Philip Melanchthon's 1523 pamphlet, The Pope-Ass Explained. With abundant illustrations, Bucks monograph delineates the various elements used to illustrate the monster and its connection to the papal antichrist. Buck also ties the Roman Monster into the discourse of the Reformation including Luthers use of it, its appearance in Wonder-book literature, its use in polemics as part of the French Wars of Religion and the Elizabethan Reformation. This intriguing book should attract widespread interest from Reformation scholars. It is one of the freshest and most original books to have appeared in several years. -- Jonathan Zophy
Author Information
Lawrence Buck is professor emeritus of history at Widener University. After serving as provost and academic vice president for twenty years at Widener, he returned to full-time teaching from 2004 to 2013. He co-edited The Social History of the Reformation, a festschrift in honor of Professor Harold Grimm, and translated Monemvasia: The Town and its History. He received his PhD from Ohio State University.
