Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton University

Research

literature medieval literature narratives of cultural dispossession crusading literature literary representations of religious difference relics thing theory

Latest funding

Narratives of impassioned things: Christian relics and their circulation in Muslim contexts
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$122,902
Reading religion: depictions of Saracens and the construction of difference in English romances from the 14th through the 16th centuries
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$51,640

All 2 grants and awards

Narratives of impassioned things: Christian relics and their circulation in Muslim contexts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bly Calkin, Siobhain M.

Keywords: literature; medieval literature; narratives of cultural dispossession; crusading literature; literary representations of religious difference; relics; thing theory

$122,902

Reading religion: depictions of Saracens and the construction of difference in English romances from the 14th through the 16th centuries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Bly Calkin, Siobhain M.

Keywords: Saracens; religion; medieval Romance; alterity

$51,640

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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