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

by Alexander Lawrence Ames

Book Overview

Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the lived religious experiences of the Protestant communities that made and used them and opening avenues for reinterpretation of this well-known,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271085908
• ISBN13: 9780271085906
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"