{"id":336,"date":"2011-03-19T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.emory.edu\/historynews\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-03-19T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:49:45","slug":"update-from-mack-p-holt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2011\/03\/19\/update-from-mack-p-holt\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Mack P. Holt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mack P. Holt<\/strong>, Ph.D. 1982, is Professor of History at George Mason University. \u00a0Having just finished his long-term project on the Reformation and Wars of Religion in Burgundy, he is starting a new project on &#8220;Reading the Bible in Reformation France.&#8221; He is on sabbatical this semester\u2014Spring 2011\u2014and will be spending much of the time in Paris looking at several hundred sixteenth-century Bibles. He explains that, &#8220;My goal is to find out how lay Protestants and Catholics read their bibles, if there were confessional differences in their readings, what passages they read most, etc. I am especially interested in any readers&#8217; marks such as underlining, marginalia, etc. that might provide clues as to how they interpreted what they read. Having been an archive rat for my entire career, I am now fully immersed in material culture and now use books as material objects rather than just texts.&#8221; He was also elected president of the Society for Reformation Research for 2010-2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mack P. Holt, Ph.D. 1982, is Professor of History at George Mason University. \u00a0Having just finished his long-term project on the Reformation and Wars of Religion in Burgundy, he is starting a new project on &#8220;Reading the Bible in Reformation France.&#8221; He is on sabbatical this semester\u2014Spring 2011\u2014and will be spending much of the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}