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Tom Lorenz

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Background

I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Language and Literature. I received my MA in Scandinavian Studies and German Philology from Kiel University, Germany, in 2019. My MA dissertation investigates the vernacular adaptations of the Latin Evangelium Nicodemi in Iceland and Scandinavia, primarily the Old Norse-Icelandic Niðrstigningar saga. I have previously worked as a research assistant at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, Frisian Studies and General Linguistics in Kiel as well as for the Hanseatic Museum in Bergen, Norway.

PhD project

My PhD project examines fragments of liturgical books produced in Iceland during the Middle Ages. It integrates methodology from material philology, fragment studies, book history and historical sociolinguistics in an interdisciplinary approach to virtually reconstruct the liturgical books preserved in the Icelandic fragment material and to study those reconstructed liturgical books in their respective historical sociocultural and sociolinguistic contexts.

Research interests

  • Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
  • Material Philology
  • Codicology
  • Fragment Studies
  • Historical Sociolinguistics
  • Stemmatology
  • Digital Humanities

Competencies

  • Codicology
  • Digital Humanities
  • Fragments
  • Historical sociolinguistics
  • History of the book
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Medieval philology
  • New philology

Publications

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2025

  • Berg, Ivar; Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol; Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2025) Fragments and Palimpsests: Recycling and Recontextualisation of Latin Manuscripts Connected to Medieval Iceland. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2025) ­Latin­ in situ Fragments Connected to Iceland: A Survey. Scripta Islandica: Isländska sällskapets årsbok
    Academic article

2024

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2024) The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2024) The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2024) Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests. Gripla
    Academic article

2023

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) Iceland’s recycled medieval books are now historic treasures.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) Et opbyggelsesdigt af Petrus Riga.
    Website (informational material)

2022

  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2022) The provenance of AM 79 ii α 8vo. A fragment of St. Birgitta’s Revelationes Celestes in a Middle Low German translation. Opuscula - Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana
    Academic article
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2022) The first and second life of a trilingual psalter palimpsest: Latin, French and Icelandic in AM 618 4to.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2022) Die alt­west­nor­dis­chen Ad­ap­tionen des Nicodemusevan­geli­ums (Gesta salvatoris): Über­set­zung und Kom­mentar [‘The Old West Norse Ad­ap­tions of the Gos­pel of Nicodemus (Gesta Salvatoris): Trans­la­tion and Com­ment­ary‘]. RMN Newsletter
    Short communication

2021

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2021) Liturgical Books in Icelandic Palimpsests.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2020

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) Burial arrangements and conceptions about the afterlife in Old Norse literary sources from the 9th to the 14th century, with reference to the role of birds of prey played therein. Wachholtz Verlag
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) Et nedertysk fragment af den hellige Birgittas åbenbaringer.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) A Low German fragment of St Birgitta's Heavenly Revelations.
    Website (informational material)

Journal publications

  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2025) ­Latin­ in situ Fragments Connected to Iceland: A Survey. Scripta Islandica: Isländska sällskapets årsbok
    Academic article
  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2024) Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests. Gripla
    Academic article
  • Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2022) The provenance of AM 79 ii α 8vo. A fragment of St. Birgitta’s Revelationes Celestes in a Middle Low German translation. Opuscula - Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana
    Academic article
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2022) Die alt­west­nor­dis­chen Ad­ap­tionen des Nicodemusevan­geli­ums (Gesta salvatoris): Über­set­zung und Kom­mentar [‘The Old West Norse Ad­ap­tions of the Gos­pel of Nicodemus (Gesta Salvatoris): Trans­la­tion and Com­ment­ary‘]. RMN Newsletter
    Short communication

Part of book/report

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2022) The first and second life of a trilingual psalter palimpsest: Latin, French and Icelandic in AM 618 4to.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2021) Liturgical Books in Icelandic Palimpsests.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) Burial arrangements and conceptions about the afterlife in Old Norse literary sources from the 9th to the 14th century, with reference to the role of birds of prey played therein. Wachholtz Verlag
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Berg, Ivar; Wærdahl, Randi Bjørshol; Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer. (2025) Fragments and Palimpsests: Recycling and Recontextualisation of Latin Manuscripts Connected to Medieval Iceland. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU
    Doctoral dissertation

Information material

  • Lorenz, Tom. (2024) The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2024) The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) Iceland’s recycled medieval books are now historic treasures.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2023) Et opbyggelsesdigt af Petrus Riga.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) Et nedertysk fragment af den hellige Birgittas åbenbaringer.
    Website (informational material)
  • Lorenz, Tom. (2020) A Low German fragment of St Birgitta's Heavenly Revelations.
    Website (informational material)

Outreach

2022

  • Poster
    Lorenz, Tom. (2022) Liturgical Fragments of Medieval Iceland (1056–1402). 18th International Saga Conference. 18th International Saga Conference. Sagas and the Circum-Baltic Arena, Helsinki and Tallinn, 7–14 August 2022 , Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia 2022-08-07 - 2022-08-14
  • Academic lecture
    Lorenz, Tom. (2022) The Context and Materiality of the 12th Century Icelandic Psalter. The Order of St. Victor in the Archdiocese of Niðarós. Oslo 10–11 November 2022 , Oslo 2022-11-10 - 2022-11-11
  • Academic lecture
    Lorenz, Tom. (2022) The first and second life of a trilingual psalter palimpsest: Latin, French and Icelandic in AM 618 4to. 18th International Saga Conference. 18th International Saga Conference. Sagas and the Circum-Baltic Arena, Helsinki and Tallinn, 7–14 August 2022. , Helsinki, Finland, & Tallinn, Estonia 2022-08-07 - 2022-08-14

2021

  • Poster
    Lorenz, Tom. (2021) Case Study: A Late 12th Century Psalter / Fallbeispiel: Ein Psalter des späten 12. Jahrhunderts. European Summer University in Digital Humanities CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY: European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2021 , Leipzig (online) 2021-08-03 - 2021-08-13
  • Poster
    Lorenz, Tom. (2021) Liturgical Books in Icelandic Palimpsests. Háskóli Íslands The 10th The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North , Reykjavík (online) 2021-04-12 - 2021-04-17
  • Academic lecture
    Lorenz, Tom. (2021) Physical and Digital Reassembly of Manuscript Fragments from Medieval Scandinavia: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Approaches. Aarhus University Connections: 14th Aarhus Student Symposium on Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Subjects , Aarhus (online) 2021-03-24 - 2021-03-26

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