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The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania / Alexander Lawrence Ames.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271092607
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ND3035 .W673 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
"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.
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction ND3035.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1252206231

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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