Margaret Cormack

Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

Education

• Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
• B.A. in Linguistics and Germanic Languages, Harvard University

Courses Taught

• RELS 105 Intro to World Religions
• RELS 230 The Christian Tradition
• RELS 375 History of Religions
• RELS 450 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion
• HONS 381 Vikings and Valkyries
• HONS 391 Pagans, Priests, and Poets; Religion in the North

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).