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The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania / Alexander Lawrence Ames.
LIBRA ND3035.P4 A44 2020
Available from offsite location
- 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:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. "Heaven Is My Fatherland": Manuscript Culture in an Age of Evangelical Piety
- 2. "The Spirit of the Letter": Calligraphy and Spirituality During the Long Era of Manuscripts
- 3. "Worship Always the Scripture": Teaching Literacy and Pious Wisdom in German Pennsylvania
- 4. "Incense Hill": Song, Image, and Ambient Manuscripts
- 5. Marching to "Step and Time": Text, Commemoration, and the Rituals of Everyday Life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271085906
- 0271085908
- OCLC:
- 1192971713
- Publisher Number:
- 99991412457
- 40030131315
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