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

List of Illustrations

Preface: “The Quill Is My Plow”

Acknowledgments

Note on Sources, Methods, and Abbreviations

Introduction: “Pages of a Mystical Character”; German Manuscripts in American History

1. “Heaven Is My Fatherland”: Manuscript Culture in an Age of Evangelical Piety

2. “The Spirit of the Letter”: Calligraphy and Spirituality During the Long Era of Manuscripts

3. “Worship Always the Scripture”: Teaching Literacy and Pious Wisdom in German Pennsylvania

4. “Incense Hill”: Song, Image, and Ambient Manuscripts

5. Marching to “Step and Time”: Text, Commemoration, and the Rituals of Everyday Life

Conclusion: “Errand into the Wilderness”; Making Meaning from Manuscripts

Notes

Bibliography

Index