The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania / Alexander Lawrence Ames.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780271092607
- ND3035 .W673 2020
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Includes bibliographies and index.
"Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and explores its role in early American popular piety and devotional culture"--
Introduction : "Pages of a mystical character" : German manuscripts in American history -- "Heaven is my fatherland" : manuscript culture in an age of evangelical piety -- "The spirit of the letter" : calligraphy and spirituality during the long era of manuscripts -- "Worship always the scripture" : teaching literacy and pious wisdom in German Pennsylvania -- "Incense hill" : song, image, and ambient manuscripts -- Marching to "step and time" : text, commemoration, and the rituals of everyday life -- Conclusion : "Errand into the wilderness" : making meaning from manuscripts.
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