{"id":21,"date":"2017-08-22T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-08-22T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:53:02","slug":"announcing-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/2017\/08\/22\/announcing-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post marks the formal launch of a new project, &#8216;Romans, Christians, and their Books, 300-486 CE&#8217;. The project explores how the changing form of the book in late antiquity shaped how readers and writers thought about literature. The project website also serves as the landing-page for a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/cnrs503-the-ancient-book\/\">graduate seminar<\/a> which will run in the second term of the 2017-18 academic year at UBC, on the topic of &#8216;The Ancient Book&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary work on the project is being undertaken over the summer of 2017 thanks to two International Work Learn Undergraduate Awards from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.ubc.ca\/\">Faculty of Arts at UBC<\/a>, which enabled the appointment of two undergraduate research assistants, Ches Walton and Alexandra Ore.<\/p>\n<p>As the project continues, this blog will be updated periodically with news and short accounts of our findings. You can also follow us on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lt_ant_books\">@lt_ant_books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post marks the formal launch of a new project, &#8216;Romans, Christians, and their Books, 300-486 CE&#8217;. The project explores how the changing form of the book in late antiquity shaped how readers and writers thought about literature. The project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/2017\/08\/22\/announcing-the-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ancientbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}