Tom Lorenz
About
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
Publications
2025
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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
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Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer.
(2025)
Latin in situ Fragments Connected to Iceland: A Survey.
Scripta Islandica: Isländska sällskapets årsbok
Academic article
2024
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2024)
The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
Website (informational material)
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2024)
The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen.
Website (informational material)
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Lorenz, Tom Niklas Oskar Rainer.
(2024)
Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests.
Gripla
Academic article
2023
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2023)
Iceland’s recycled medieval books are now historic treasures.
Website (informational material)
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2023)
An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga.
Website (informational material)
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2023)
Et opbyggelsesdigt af Petrus Riga.
Website (informational material)
2022
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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
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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
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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
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2021)
Liturgical Books in Icelandic Palimpsests.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2020
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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
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2020)
Et nedertysk fragment af den hellige Birgittas åbenbaringer.
Website (informational material)
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Lorenz, Tom.
(2020)
A Low German fragment of St Birgitta's Heavenly Revelations.
Website (informational material)
Journal publications
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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
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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
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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
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PosterLorenz, 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
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Academic lectureLorenz, 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
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Academic lectureLorenz, 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
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PosterLorenz, 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
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PosterLorenz, 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
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Academic lectureLorenz, 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