LEADER 03750nam 2200685 450 001 9910788219303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908424-1-1 010 $a0-8078-3819-5 010 $a1-4696-0134-6 035 $a(CKB)3170000000065476 035 $a(EBL)4321946 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870373 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11448451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870373 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10826612 035 $a(PQKB)10792912 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245604 035 $a(OCoLC)861793277 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321946 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149732 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321946 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000065476 100 $a20111207h20122012 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA harmony of the spirits $etranslation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania /$fPatrick M. Erben 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 1 $aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-3346-9 311 $a0-8078-3557-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Letters 327 $aFive: 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; Z 330 8 $aIn early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'. 410 0$aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 606 $aLanguage and languages$xVariation 606 $aLanguage and culture$zUnited States 607 $aPennsylvania$xHistory 607 $aPennsylvania$xLanguages 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xVariation. 615 0$aLanguage and culture 676 $a409.748/09033 700 $aErben$b Patrick M$g(Patrick Michael),$01509537 712 02$aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788219303321 996 $aA harmony of the spirits$93741499 997 $aUNINA