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

Title
The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania / Alexander Lawrence Ames.
Author
Ames, Alexander Lawrence, 1987-
Publication
  • University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Description
xxiv, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies
Uniform Title
Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies.
Subject
  • Fraktur art > Pennsylvania Dutch Country
  • Fraktur art
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch
  • Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania Dutch Country
  • Pennsylvania Dutch > Religious life
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pietism > Pennsylvania > History
  • Pietism
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
ND3035.P4
ISBN
  • 9780271085906
  • 0271085908
LCCN
  • 2019059654
  • 40030130414
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries