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

• Autore: Ames Alexander Lawrence <1987->
• Pubblicazione: University Park : , : Penn State University Press, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages)
• Disciplina: 745.6/709748
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dutch Country; Pennsylvania
• 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"--
• Altri titoli varianti: Word in the Wilderness
• Titolo autorizzato: The Word in the Wilderness
• ISBN: 0-271-09260-2; 0-271-09259-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794568203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies