Christ on a Donkey – Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants / / Max Harris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Harris, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Early Social Performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)

‹I›Christ on a Donkey‹/I› 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 Iva...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Note on Form
• Introduction: From Pomp to Donkeys
• PART ONE: POMP
• I. Triumphal Entries: From Charlemagne to Oliver Cromwell
• 1. Charlemagne’s Birthday Pomp
• 2. Kings Dead or Alive
• 3. Warrior Popes
• 4. Mud, Plague, and the Lord Protector
• II. Palm Sunday Processions: From Egeria to Peter the Great
• 5. Palms of Victory
• 6. Exalted and Eccentric Images
• 7. Crusaders, Patriarchs, and Emperors
• 8. The Horse with Donkey’s Ears
• PART TWO: PARODIES
• James Nayler and Jesus of Nazareth
• 9. James Nayler’s Royal Progress
• 10. Jesus on a Jackass
• PART THREE: DONKEYS
• I. A Scarcity of Donkeys: From Udine to El Alto
• 11. Under Muslim Rule
• 12. White Horses and Imagined Donkeys
• 13. Live Donkeys at Last
• II. Wooden Christs on Wooden Donkeys: From Augsburg to Chiquitos
• 14. An Image of the Lord Seated on an Ass
• 15. The Lord God Belongs to the Butchers
• 16. The Persecution of the Palmesel
• 17. Baroque Splendour and Catholic Enlightenment
• 18. The Donkey that Walked on Water
• 19. Survivals and Revivals
• Conclusion: Christ Dismembered and the Bombing of Lübeck
• Bibliography
• Index