03750nam 2200685 450 991082487090332120200520144314.0979-88-908424-1-10-8078-3819-51-4696-0134-6(CKB)3170000000065476(EBL)4321946(SSID)ssj0000870373(PQKBManifestationID)11448451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870373(PQKBWorkID)10826612(PQKB)10792912(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245604(OCoLC)861793277(MdBmJHUP)muse48726(Au-PeEL)EBL4321946(CaPaEBR)ebr11149732(CaONFJC)MIL930343(MiAaPQ)EBC4321946(EXLCZ)99317000000006547620111207h20122012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA harmony of the spirits translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania /Patrick M. ErbenChapel Hill :Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (352 p.)Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-3346-9 0-8078-3557-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Editorial Note; Introduction: "Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual Translation in Early America; One: Reversing the Heritage of Babel: Visions of Religious and Linguistic Renewal in Seventeenth-Century Europe; Two: Translating Pennsylvania: Visions of Spiritual Community in Promotional Literature; Three: Debating Pennsylvania: Religious and Linguistic Diversity and Difference; Four: "Honey-Combs" and "Paper-Hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Gathering of a Translingual Community of LettersFive: A Hidden Voice Amplified: Music, Mysticism, and TranslationSix: "What Will Become of Pennsylvania?": War, Community, and the Language of Suffering for Peace; Coda: Confusio Linguarum Redux: Moravian Missions, Multilingualism, and the Search for a Spiritual Language; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZIn early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'.Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaLanguage and languagesVariationLanguage and cultureUnited StatesPennsylvaniaHistoryPennsylvaniaLanguagesLanguage and languagesVariation.Language and culture409.748/09033Erben Patrick M(Patrick Michael),1680298Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824870903321A harmony of the spirits4048944UNINA