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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Alexander Lawrence, 1987- author.

Series:

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.

Fraktur art--Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Fraktur art.

Pennsylvania Dutch--Religious life.

Pennsylvania Dutch.

Pietism--Pennsylvania--History.

Pietism.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

ISBN:

9780271085906

0271085908

OCLC:

1120964124

Publisher Number:

40030131315