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.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2019
Copyrightjahr
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-287-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-64189-289-6
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Early Social Performance
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
292
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Abbreviations Kein Zugriff
Note on form Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
Introduction: from Pomp to Donkeys Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 6
Chapter 1 Charlemagne’s Birthday Pomp Kein Zugriff
Chapter 2 Kings Dead or Alive Kein Zugriff
Chapter 3 Warrior Popes Kein Zugriff
Chapter 4 Mud, Plague, and the Lord Protector Kein Zugriff
Chapter 5 Palms of Victory Kein Zugriff
Chapter 6 Exalted and Eccentric Images Kein Zugriff
Chapter 7 Crusaders, Patriarchs, and Emperors Kein Zugriff
Chapter 8 The Horse with Donkey’s Ears Kein Zugriff
Chapter 9 James Nayler’s Royal Progress Kein Zugriff
Chapter 10 Jesus on a Jackass Kein Zugriff
Chapter 11 Under Muslim Rule Kein Zugriff
Chapter 12 White Horses and Imagined Donkeys Kein Zugriff
Chapter 13 Live Donkeys at Last Kein Zugriff
Chapter 14 An Image of the Lord Seated on an Ass Kein Zugriff
Chapter 15 The Lord God Belongs to the Butchers Kein Zugriff
Chapter 16 The Persecution of the Palmesel Kein Zugriff
Chapter 17 Baroque Splendour and Catholic Enlightenment Kein Zugriff
Chapter 18 The Donkey that Walked on Water Kein Zugriff
Chapter 19 Survivals and Revivals Kein Zugriff
Conclusion Christ Dismembered and the Bombing of Lübeck Kein Zugriff
