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MARGARET CORMACKAssociate Professor Dept. of Religious Studies office: 4 Glebe Street, Rm 102 |
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Margaret Cormack has a BA in Linguistics and Germanic Languages from Harvard University and a PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She teaches courses on World Religions, Christianity, and Islam. The topics of her upper level seminars include Medieval Christianity, the Cult of Saints, Millennialism, and Holy War.
Dr. Cormack's research focuses on the cult of saints in Christianity and other religions. She is also interested in the history, literature, and folklore of Medieval Europe, especially Scandinavia. She has organized several conferences, most recently "Muslims and Others in Sacred Space" at the College of Charleston in 2007 and "Saints and Geography" in Holar, Iceland, in 2006. In 2004 she organized a conference at the College of Charleston on "Saints and Pilgrimage around the Atlantic," and some of the papers presented there are now published in the volume listed below.
Main Publications
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, ed. Margaret Cormack. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.
"Fact and Fiction in the Icelandic Sagas" History Compass 5 (1) 2006.
Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives on Martyrdom and Religion, ed. Margaret Cormack. Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Saints in Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400, Subsidia Hagiogaphica 78, Société des Bollandistes, Brussels, 1994.
"Poetry, Paganism, and the Sagas of Icelandic Bishops" in Til Heidurs og Hugbotar ed. by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and Anna Guðmundsdóttir (Reykholt: Snorrastofa, 2003).
View her database of Icelandic Churches and Saints' Cults
Links:
Société des Bollandistes
Hagiography Society
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum