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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794568203321

Autore

Ames Alexander Lawrence <1987->

Titolo

The Word in the Wilderness : Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park : , : Penn State University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-271-09260-2

0-271-09259-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies ; ; v.5

Disciplina

745.6/709748

Soggetti

Manuscrits allemands - Pennsylvanie (États-Unis)

Vie religieuse - Pennsylvanie (États-Unis)

Enluminure

Pietism

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch

Fraktur art

RELIGION - Christianity - Protestant

Pietism - Pennsylvania - History

Pennsylvania Dutch - Religious life

Fraktur art - Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Pennsylvania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

"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"--