What is "Manuscript Culture"? Reframing Pennsylvania German Manuscript Studies as a Sub-field of Book History Cloister Talk: The Pennsylvania German Material Texts Podcast

The study of Pennsylvania German illuminated manuscripts has long lacked a coherent theoretical and methodological foundation that situates the enterprise into wider scholarly conversations about religion, language, text, and culture.  This episode proposes new approaches to unlocking the meaning of Pennsylvania German manuscripts, grounded in recent advancements in study of the history of texts as material artifacts.