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]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Early Social Performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781641892896; 9783110661521; 9783110737769; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348
• DOI: 10.1515/9781641892896?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Max Harris.

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.