"Errand Into the Wilderness": What Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts Mean in American History - a podcast by Alexander Lawrence Ames

A key topic addressed in The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania is how a deeper understanding of the spiritual underpinnings of the Pennsylvania German manuscript arts can add nuance to our interpretation of early American religious and cultural life.  This episode of Cloister Talk explores that issue in greater depth, using Samuel Pennypacker’s book Pennsylvania in American History and intellectual historian Perry Miller’s famous work Errand Into the Wilderness as case studies for our analysis.

Further episodes of Cloister Talk: The Pennsylvania German Material Texts Podcast

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