…In the 15th and 16th centuries, in the midst of the turmoil of the Reformation in Western Europe, interest turned to the birth of deformed bodies as omens heralding the end of the world. Lycosthenes’ Chronicles Attested to as Omens (1557) explored the relationship between the birth of monsters and strange events, and Luther and Melanchthon used this in their religious debates, inventing a fictitious deformed body called the “Papal Ass” and publicizing it as a sign of the collapse of Roman Catholicism. However, with the rise of true biology, researchers began to see monsters and deformed bodies as mysterious natural phenomena, and works such as Gesner’s History of Animals (1551-58), Paré’s On Monsters and Deformities (1573), and G. Schott’s Wonders of Nature (1662) appeared. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Pope Donkey" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…15~16世紀にはいると,西欧では宗教改革期の混乱の中で,世の終末を告げる異兆としての奇形の誕生に関心が向かった。リュコステネスC.Lycosthenesの《異兆と証された年代記》(1557)は怪物誕生と異変の関係を探り,ルターとメランヒトンはこれを宗教論争に利用して〈教皇ロバ〉なる架空の奇形をでっちあげ,ローマ・カトリック崩壊の予兆と喧伝した。しかし真の意味での生物学が勃興すると,怪物や奇形を自然現象の神秘と見る研究者が現れ,ゲスナー《動物誌》(1551‐58),パレ《怪物と奇形について》(1573),ショットG.Schott《自然の奇異》(1662)などの著作が現れた。… ※「教皇ロバ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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