TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ames,Alexander Lawrence
TI  - The word in the wilderness: popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania 
T2  - Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies
SN  - 9780271092607
AV  - ND3035 .W673 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch
KW  - Fraktur art
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Pennsylvania Dutch Country
KW  - Pennsylvania Dutch
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Pietism
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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