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.

About the author

Alexander Lawrence Ames is Collections Engagement Manager at The Rosenbach, a historic house museum and special collections library affiliated with the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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. Â

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Ames, Alexander Lawrence Ames, Alexander Lawrence (Collections Engagement Manager Ames
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2020
• EAN: 9780271085906
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08590-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, History of art / art & design styles, History of the Americas, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches