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Christ on a Donkey – Palm Sunday, Triumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants (Early Social Performance) Hardcover – March 4, 2019
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- Print length296 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherArc Humanities Press
- Publication dateMarch 4, 2019
- Dimensions6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-101641892870
- ISBN-13978-1641892872
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[P]rovides readers with a far-ranging exploration of various forms of processional entries between the first and twenty-first centuries. Donkeys (or the lack thereof), palmesels, monarchs, popes, bishops, and Quakers feature prominently in this narrative, as Harris weaves together seemingly disparate threads into a tapestry meant to give a clearer picture of how, where, when, and why processionals took place against the liturgical and political backdrop of medieval and early modern Europe in particular. Drawing on written records such as pontificals, chronicles, and descriptions of royal entries along with palmesels and other surviving material evidence, he shows that over time, Palm Sunday and related processions moved from elite performances that were almost completely at odds with the biblical account of the entry to processions that more clearly reflected the parodic intent of the original performance.
-- Lynneth Miller RenbergReview
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- Publisher : Arc Humanities Press; New edition (March 4, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 296 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1641892870
- ISBN-13 : 978-1641892872
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,992,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #53 in Medieval Dramas & Plays
- #185 in Religious & Liturgical Dramas & Plays
- #2,276 in Church & State Religious Studies
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