Christ on a donkey Palm Sunday, triumphal entries, and blasphemous pageants / Max Harris.
| Author/creator | Harris, Max, 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019] |
| Description | xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early social performance Early social performance. ^A1379610 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "At once scholarly and entertaining, Christ on a Donkey is a study of Palm Sunday processions and related royal entries as both spectacular instances of processional theater and highly charged interpretations of the biblical narrative to which they claim allegiance. Harris's narrative ranges from ancient Jerusalem to modern-day Bolivia, from imperial white horses to wheeled wooden images of Christ on a donkey, from veneration to iconoclasm, and from Christ to Ivan the Terrible. A curious theme emerges: those embodied representations of Christ's entry into Jerusalem that were labeled blasphemous, idolatrous, or superstitious by those in power were arguably most faithful to the biblical narrative of Palm Sunday, while those staged with the purpose of exalting those in power and celebrating military triumph were arguably blasphemous pageants."--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-268) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Ebook version : 9781641892896 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018276690 |
| ISBN | 9781641892872 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1641892870 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |