Christ on a Donkey - Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64189-288-9
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Early Social Performance

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Blasphemie, Ketzerei, Konversion, Abwendung von Religion
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Splendor and Catholic Enlightenment
18. The Donkey that Walked on Water
19. Survivals and Revivals
Conclusion: Christ Dismembered and the Bombing of Lübeck

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, Max
Max Harris is the author of five previous books, including Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (2011) which won the Otto Grundler prize. He has served as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council and has taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia