Art and ceremony in late antiquity

by Sabine MacCormack

450 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1981

Reviews

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This review is just about the author.

Sabine MacCormack was a brilliant scholar and first-rate human being.
She died unexpectedly in 2012; I just heard about it from a former colleague. A heart attack while gardening.

Dr. MacCormack began her scholarly career with antiquity and the middle ages, particularly their art, philosophy, and ceremonial practices. Developing an interest in South American religion and its place in the colonial experience she taught herself multiple native languages as well as Spanish and Portuguese. She would later be instrumental in founding the Latin American Indigenous Language Learning Program, which she endowed with funds from her Mellon award.

Dr. MacCormack received degrees from the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Oxford, and the University of Liverpool. She held numerous professorships and received too many prizes, awards, and fellowships for me to list here.

As a teacher and public speaker, Sabine was lively, erudite, incisive, and fascinating. As a colleague she was kind, polite, and took no crap from anyone.