Christ on a donkey : Palm Sunday, triumphal entries, and blasphemous pageants

Christ on a donkey : Palm Sunday, triumphal entries, and blasphemous pageants / Max Harris.

Christ on a Donkey reveals Palm Sunday processions and related royal entries as both processional theatre and highly charged interpretations of the biblical narrative. Harris's narrative ranges from ancient Jerusalem to modern-day Bolivia, from veneration to iconoclasm, and from Christ to Ivan...

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Main Author: Harris, Max, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kalamazoo : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.
Series:Early social performance.
Subjects:
Palm Sunday.
Processions, Religious > Christianity.
DRAMA > Medieval.
Processions, Religious > Christianity
Palm Sunday
Electronic books.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From pomp to donkeys
  • I. Triumphal entries: from charlemagne to Oliver Cromwell. Charlemagne's birthday pomp
  • Kings dead or alive
  • Warrior popes
  • Mud, plauge, and the Lord Protector
  • II. Palm Sunday processions: from Egeria to Peter the Great. Palms of victory
  • Exalted and eccentric images
  • Crusaders, patriarchs, and emperors
  • The horse with donkey's ears
  • James Nayler and Jesus of Nazareth. James Nayler's royal progress
  • Jesus on a jackass
  • I.A scarcity of donkeys: from Udine to El Alto. Under Muslim rule
  • White horses and imagined donkeys
  • Live donkeys at last
  • II. Wooden Christs on wooden donkeys" from Augsburg to Chiquitos. An image of the Lord seated on an ass
  • The Lord God belongs to the butchers
  • The persecution of the Palmesel
  • Baroque splendour and Catholic Enlightenment
  • The donkey that walked on water
  • Survivals and revivals
  • Conclusion: Christ dismembered and the bombing of Lübeck.

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