Ames, Alexander Lawrence,  1987- <br/><br/>
The word in the wilderness :  popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania / 
Alexander Lawrence Ames. 
 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource (xxiv, 240 pages) :  illustrations 
 - Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271092607 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.<br/>Fraktur art--Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country.<br/>Pennsylvania Dutch--Religious life.<br/>Pietism--History.--Pennsylvania
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ND3035  / .W673 2020