Åslaug Ommundsen
- E-mailAslaug.Ommundsen@uib.no
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Åslaug Ommundsen has since 2003 studied fragments from medieval manuscripts in Latin, focusing on the development of book production in Norway in light of impulses from European centres and international collaboration in the Middle Ages. In addition to medieval book and scribal culture her academic interests include liturgy and liturgical practice, saints’ cults and hagiography, and monastic and ecclesiastical history. For more about Ommundsen's research, see Manuscripts that link Europe together.
Ommundsen is currently part of the management group of the Medieval Research Cluster at the University of Bergen and served as the cluster's Academic director from its foundation in 2018 to January 2023. She is the leader of the Research Group for Medieval Philology which is a broadly organized research group, open to academics with an interest in medieval texts and manuscripts primarily in Latin and Old Norse but also other medieval languages.
In 2012 she was awarded the Starting Grant for Young Researchers from Bergen Research Foundation (now Trond Mohn Foundation). In the project From manuscript fragments to book history (2012-2017) she and her team explored the first centuries of book and scribal culture in Norway in a European context. The approach very much depended on the analysis of script (palaeography) and other features of the once-existing book (codicology), as well as their content.
Ommundsen is an active member of the Nordic fragment network, a loosely organized network which continues a long-lived tradition of collaboration among Nordic fragment scholars, also involving international experts from other parts of Europe. The network has twice received funding for two series of exploratory workshops from the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), first in 2009 and secondly in 2018.
Åslaug Ommundsen regularly participate in conferences and seminars, as well as holding more informal lectures and talks. She also communicates her research through online channels with a broader audience such as the University of Bergen’s knowledge base grind.no or the Norwegian encyclopedia snl.no (Store norske leksikon).
She has been instrumental in the organisation of Bergen Medieval week since 2018, a broad and diverse arena for research communication.
Courses include Latin prose and grammar (LAT102) in the spring and Medieval Latin (LAT107) in the autumn.
The course in Medieval Latin provides a basic knowledge of Latin grammar and literature in medieval Western Europe. It also includes an introduction to European book and scribal culture 500-1500.
Åslaug Ommundsen has published extensively on manuscript (and fragment) studies, saints’ cults, and monastic history in peer reviewed books and academic journals. She has co-edited four volumes, among them Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments (2017) and St. Sunniva - Irish Queen and Norwegian Patron Saint (2021). Most of her publications are openly available and can be accessed from her Google scholar or Academia.edu profiles.
- (2020). A New Manuscript Source for the Legend of Saint Clement in Denmark. Journal of Medieval Latin. 227-256.
- (2017). Two French or flemish manuscripts and their Scandinavian fate. Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 337-359.
- (2016). To kongar, to dronningar og eit nonnekloster i Bergen. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 7-33.
- (2013). Icelandic liturgical books and how to recognise them. Scriptorium. 293-317.
- (2012). Two scribes and one scriptorium active in Norway c. 1200. Scriptorium. 25-54.
- (2010). Saint Mary's convent ("Nonneseter") in Bergen - a Benedictine abbey. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 26 pages.
- (2010). Nonneseter i Bergen - eit benediktinarkloster. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 547-571.
- (2004). Tidebøner via data - breviarium frå ca. 1200 bak inventarlista frå Hålandsdalen. Bergensposten. 78-84.
- (2006). The Beginnings of Nordic Scribal Culture, ca 1050-1300; REPORT from a Workshop on Parchment Fragments, Bergen 28-30 October 2005. .
- (2021). Jerusalem i mellomalderens Noreg. Ei nyoppdaga kjelde .
- (2021). A Scandinavian scribe and Jerusalem: Pseudo-Hegesippus in recently identified fragments in Copenhagen.
- (2019). Nonneseter i Bergen - menneska og murane.
- (2019). Mellomalderens Nonneseter - kvinneliv i fridom eller fangenskap.
- (2019). Heilage jomfruer i ein by for menn. Sankta Sunniva og nonnene i jomfru Marias kloster i 1100-talets Bergen.
- (2018). Puslespelbøkene: Bokfragment frå mellomalderen som kjeldemateriale .
- (2018). Klosterets bøker, bokkultur og bokproduksjon.
- (2017). Olavssekvensen fra Middelalderen.
- (2017). Latinske fragment frå mellomalderen.
- (2017). Kjelder til skrivarmiljøet i Trondheim på seint 1100-tal.
- (2017). Islands latinske arv. 1200-tallets tospråklige skrivere.
- (2013). Norwegian scriptoria ca. 1200.
- (2021). Miniføredrag om Sta. Sunniva.
- (2020). Sunnivafeiring i mellomalderen.
- (2020). Bokseminar, St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen.
- (2019). Norges eldste bok - og restene av Tønsbergs bokskatter fra middelalderen.
- (2019). Bokproduksjon i Bergen i mellomalderen.
- (2017). Oppdag Nonneseter.
- (2017). Kulturnatt på Nonneseter kloster.
- (2015). Nonneseter i Bergen i middelalderen.
- (2013). Sunniva i skrift.
- (2011). Sankta Sunniva og Seljumennene.
- (2011). Sancta Sunniva, Bergens vernehelgen.
- (2011). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen.
- (2010). Ei heilag jomfru til bispesetet: Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen.
- (2010). Bitar frå ein bokkultur.
- (2004). Skjulte skattar på pergament. Liturgiske mellomalderhandskrift i norske arkiv.
- (2020). Bilingual scribes in the far North: early evidence from Trondheim, Norway.
- (2019). Nordisk fragmentsamarbeid - puslespel over landegrenser.
- (2019). Fragments as evidence of learned enironments. The example of twelfth-century Trondheim.
- (2019). Den latinske legenden om sankt Hallvard: en firkløver av en legende.
- (2018). Saint Sunniva; an Irish Queen to match a Norwegian King.
- (2018). Messebøker under kniven - mellomalderske bokfragment frå Nordhordland og Voss.
- (2018). European book fragments in Norway: Embracing chaos in research methods.
- (2017). Norwegian Book Fragments and the Internet.
- (2016). The Latin memory aids in GKS 1812 4o.
- (2016). Fragments of books or fragments of fragments? The state of Norwegian medieval manuscripts in the sixteenth century and the illusion of the complete codex.
- (2013). Seeing scriptoria in scraps: Norwegian manuscript fragments and their historical context.
- (2013). Liturgy and Latinity in medieval Iceland.
- (2013). Icelandic liturgical fragments and how to recognize them.
- (2012). Two tongues, one pen: Latin and Old Norse literacy in medieval Scandinavia.
- (2011). Material Remains of Latin Grammatica in the Old Norse World.
- (2011). Levninger av latinundervisningen i norrøn tid.
- (2011). Icelandic scribes and liturgical book fragments.
- (2010). The Nordic medieval bookstore: The mobility of scribes and Latin manuscripts within the Nordic countries 1100–1300.
- (2010). Status of fragment research, Norway and Denmark.
- (2010). Lost - and Found - Cistercian Manuscripts in Norway.
- (2010). Latin Poetry in Runes in Medieval Norway.
- (2009). The Manuscript triangle France-England-Scandinavia 1100-1300.
- (2009). Reconstructing Book History from Manuscript Fragments.
- (2009). Maria peperit Christum: The powers of a Latin formula.
- (2009). From saints' cults to magic spells.
- (2008). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers.
- (2008). The Cults of Local Saints in Norway before 1200.
- (2008). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend.
- (2008). Initials in Norwegian Medieval Manuscripts.
- (2008). Grasping God’s mystified message. Medieval liturgy and Christian identity in the North.
- (2007). The monastic orders in Norway in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- (2007). Liturgical texts in performance.
- (2007). Finding European centres in Nordic fragments.
- (2007). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's legend and its redactions.
- (2006). Text encoding in practice. The philologists experience with digitising a medieval manuscript fragment collection.
- (2005). Saints and sequences. Reception and production: St. Nicholas and St. Olav.
- (2005). Introduction: The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments.
- (2004). Voices in the Periphery. The Sequences of Medieval Nidaros and the Influence from Central Europe.
- (2018). Treasures from the Grave: exploring Irish Norse connections through artefacts in the University Museum of Bergen.
- (2009). Cistercian manuscript culture in medieval Scandinavia: a workshop. Citeaux: commentarii cistercienses. 2 pages.
- (2019). Theodoricus. Egil Kraggerud, Theodoricus. De antiquitate regum Norwagiensium, On the Old Norwegian Kings, edited with translation and commentary (Oslo: Novus forlag, 2018). Klassisk Forum.
- (2011). Merete Geert Andersn: Katalog over AM Accessoria 7: De latinske fragmenter (Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLVI, København 2008. 160 pp., CD-ROM with ill.). Collegium Medievale. 174-175.
- (2011). John Toy (ed.): English saints in the medieval liturgies of Scandinavian churches. Saga-Book. 83-85.
- (2009). The Sacramentary of Ratoldus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052). Edited byNicholas Orchard. Henry Bradshaw Society, 116. Pp. ccvi + 601. London: Henry BradshawSociety. 2005. ISBN: 978-1870252225. Medieval Sermon Studies. 82-83.
- (2006). Jan Brunius (red.): Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 260-262.
- (2021). St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen / - Irish Queen, Norwegian Patron Saint. Alvheim og Eide Akademisk forlag.
- (2017). Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments. The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books. Routledge.
- (2014). En prisverdig historiker: Festskrift til Gunnar I. Pettersen. Riksarkivet.
- (2010). Vår eldste bok. Skrift, miljø og biletbruk i den norske homilieboka. Novus Forlag.
- (2011). Sankta Sunniva og det heilage skrinet, lesehefte 1-3.
- (2005). The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments: Workshop material.
- (2005). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
- (2011). Å skrive med stil - stylus frå Nonneseter gjenoppdaga i museets magasin. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 51-55.
- (2011). Fragment fra fortida. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 56-59.
- (2003). Mariakirken og drapet i 1525. Ny viten om Stavangers middelalderhistorie. Frá haug ok heiðni. 3-13.
- (2017). The French Connection. Norwegian Manuscript Fragments of French Origin and their Historical Context.
- (2007). Books, scribes and sequences in medieval Norway.
- (2013). Ein mellomalder-løyndom frå Holdhus kyrkje.
- (2011). Vår første skriftkultur.
- (2008). Mariakirken i all sin prakt.
- (2008). Fant steiner fra Mariakirken.
- (2023). 38. Med skriftkultur på Europa-reise i mellomalderen. Samtale med Åslaug Ommundsen og Synnøve Midtbø Myking.
- (2023). Med skriftkultur på Europa-reise i mellomalderen.
- (2016). «A Book is Used”. In “A book’s life in Norway”. Audio-visual publication within the research project (leader, Åslaug Ommundsen) “From manuscript fragments to book history”.
- (2013). Nærbilder: Manuskripter fra middelalderen.
- (2011). Om endringer i skriftkultur.
- (2011). Om Nonneseter i programmet Museum.
- (2011). Innslag om stylus på Vestlandsrevyen.
- (2011). Innslag om stylus på Språkteigen.
- (2010). Middelaldermusikk i Klassisk avsporing.
- (2010). Innslag med Schola Solensis i Norge rundt.
- (2009). Om utropsteiknet.
- (2009). Om spørjeteiknet.
- (2009). Om prikken over i'en.
- (2009). Om ampersand.
- (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger Byarkiv.
- (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger.
- (2008). Vår fortid i skrift, i 3 av 9 program.
- (2023). Det mellomalderske kyrkjerommet. Liturgi og bruk. 19 pages.
- (2022). The Mass of Saint Olaf and a recovered sequence for a missa votiva.
- (2021). Legenda. 12 pages.
- (2021). Latin Memory Aids in GKS 1812 4to. 24 pages.
- (2021). Ei dronning verdig. Feiringa av den heilage Sunniva ved bispesetet i Bergen. 20 pages.
- (2021). Den heilage Sunniva - vår vernehelgen. 18 pages.
- (2019). Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway. 32 pages.
- (2017). Piecing together the past: the accidental manuscript Collections of the North. 23 pages.
- (2017). Latin Hagiography in Medieval Norway (c. 1050-1500). 118 pages.
- (2017). Danish fragments in Norway and their connections to twelfth-century Lund. 37 pages.
- (2017). A Norwegian - and European - jigsaw puzzle of manuscript fragments. 28 pages.
- (2014). Mi 75 - eller: er det så nøye med antall linjer? 20 pages.
- (2014). Fransk-engelsk musikk i Lunds eldre gavebok. 10 pages.
- (2013). The Word of God and the Stories of Saints: Medieval Liturgy and its Reception in Norway. 22 pages.
- (2013). Psalms Interrupted. The Psalter Fragments in the NRA in Oslo. 27 pages.
- (2013). Læresveinar for si tid - ideal og praksis. 17 pages.
- (2013). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen. 18 pages.
- (2011). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend. 10 pages.
- (2011). Ei heilag jomfrun til bispesetet - Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen. 16 pages.
- (2010). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers. 14 pages.
- (2010). The Cults of Saints in Norway before 1200. 27 pages.
- (2010). Nye blikk på homilieboka. 25 pages.
- (2010). Homilieboka og dei liturgiske fragmenta. 20 pages.
- (2010). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's Legend and Its Redactions. 22 pages.
- (2006). Two Selected Sequence Sources from Norway. 29 pages.
- (2010). Musical and Liturgical Sources from Scandinavia. 1182-1182. In:
- (2010). The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 1-4.
- (2011). Kloster og kunnskap (Fragment fra fortida I).
- (2010). Una voce – gregoriansk sang med lokalt tilsnitt.
- (2014). Theodulf of Orleans. The verse.
- (2008). From books to bindings — and back. Medieval manuscript fragments in Norway. Gazette du livre médiéval. 9 pages.
- (2006). Middelalder online. Bergens manuskriptfragmenter på nettet. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 229-234.
- (2004). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
- (2016). Traces of Latin Education in the Old Norse World. 243-261. In:
- (2016). Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Brepols.
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