This Teaching I Present
Subtitle: Fraktur From the Skippack & Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836 (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, No. 41)
Publisher: Good Books
Published: January 25, 2004
Place of publication: Intercourse, PA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781561484065
Subjects: Modern - 18th Century; Pennsylvania; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch; General; Education; History - General History; Montgomery County; Modern - 19th Century; Mennonites; Education / General; Fraktur art; ca. 1698-1771; Dock, Christopher,; Illumination of books and manu
First sentence: Christopher Dock, an eighteenth-century Mennonite schoolmaster, wrote these words in Schul-Ordnung, his landmark 1750 treatise on school management.
Table of contents: title: Series editor's foreword / Steven M. Nolt; title: Preface / Alan G. Keyser; title: Maps; title: Introduction; title: From Europe to the New World; title: Starting schools at Skippack and Salford; title: Schoolmaster Christopher Dock; title: Early Fraktur in Pennsylvania; title: Quills and colors, tulips and birds; title: Color plates with notes, 1747-1836; title: Epilogue; title: Word definitions; title: Chronological list of dated Fraktur from Skippack and Salford; title: Schoolmaster biographical list; title: Student biographical list; title: Transcriptions and translations; title: Reflections and acknowledgments; title: Endnotes; title: About the author