Christ on a donkey Palm Sunday, triumphal entries, and blasphemous pageants
'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 Chr...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press
2019.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Early social performance. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43755380*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
