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The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania
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"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 popu...
"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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- Creator
- Alexander Lawrence Ames
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- Language
- English
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- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- xxiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271085906, 0271085908
- OCLC
- on1120964124
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
- 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