<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 Ivan the Terrible. A curious theme emerges: those representations of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem that were labelled blasphemous or idolatrous by those in power were most faithful to the biblical narrative of Palm Sunday, while those that exalted power and celebrated military triumph were arguably blasphemous pageants.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Note on form
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: from Pomp to Donkeys
- Part One: Pomp I. Triumphal Entries: From Charlemagne to Oliver Cromwell
- Chapter 1 Charlemagne’s Birthday Pomp
- Chapter 2 Kings Dead or Alive
- Chapter 3 Warrior Popes
- Chapter 4 Mud, Plague, and the Lord Protector
- Part One:
Pomp II. Palm Sunday Processions: From Egeria to Peter the Great
- Chapter 5 Palms of Victory
- Chapter 6 Exalted and Eccentric Images
- Chapter 7 Crusaders, Patriarchs, and Emperors
- Chapter 8 The Horse with Donkey’s Ears
- Part Two:
Parodies James Nayler and Jesus of Nazareth
- Chapter 9 James Nayler’s Royal Progress
- Chapter 10 Jesus on a Jackass
- Part Three: Donkeys I. A Scarcity of Donkeys: From Udine to El Alto
- Chapter 11 Under Muslim Rule
- Chapter 12 White Horses and Imagined Donkeys
- Chapter 13 Live Donkeys at Last
- Part Three:
Donkeys II. Wooden Christs on Wooden Donkeys: From Augsburg to Chiquitos
- Chapter 14 An Image of the Lord Seated on an Ass
- Chapter 15 The Lord God Belongs to the Butchers
- Chapter 16 The Persecution of the Palmesel
- Chapter 17 Baroque Splendour and Catholic Enlightenment
- Chapter 18 The Donkey that Walked on Water
- Chapter 19 Survivals and Revivals
- Conclusion Christ Dismembered and the Bombing of Lübeck
- Bibliography
- Index
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