The Word in the Wilderness : : Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania / / Alexander Lawrence Ames.
Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the l...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 35 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: "The Quill Is My Plow"
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources, Methods, and Abbreviations
- Introduction: "Pages of a Mystical Character"; German Manuscripts in American History
- 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
- Conclusion: "Errand into the Wilderness"; Making Meaning from Manuscripts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index