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The word in the wilderness : popular piety and the manuscript arts in early Pennsylvania /

"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"--

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Main Author: Ames, Alexander Lawrence, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies
Subjects and Genres:
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Fraktur art > Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Pennsylvania Dutch > Religious life.
Pietism > Pennsylvania > History.
Enluminure Pennsylvania Dutch.
Pennsylvania Dutch (Ethnie) > Vie religieuse.
Piétisme > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
Fraktur art.
Pietism.
Enluminure.
Vie religieuse > Pennsylvanie (États-Unis).
Manuscrits allemands > Pennsylvanie (États-Unis).
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
History.
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Summary: "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"--
Physical Description: xxiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.
ISBN: 9780271085906
0271085908

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