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I. Introduction I. Introduction
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II. The Legal Sources II. The Legal Sources
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III. The Lutheran Reformation and the Scandinavian Law III. The Lutheran Reformation and the Scandinavian Law
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IV. The Legal Revolution in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavia IV. The Legal Revolution in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavia
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V. Natural law and Enlightenment in Scandinavia V. Natural law and Enlightenment in Scandinavia
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VI. Conclusions VI. Conclusions
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Recommended Reading Recommended Reading
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35 Scandinavian Law in the Early Modern Period
Get accessHeikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on early modern and contemporary legal history. Pihlajamäki’s research is comparative, and he has written on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe, and Latin America. Thematically, his research comprises historical aspects of procedural, criminal, private, and administrative law, in addition to which he has published on the history of the legal profession, and theory of legal history and comparative law.
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Published:08 August 2018
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Abstract
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the connection of Scandinavian to continental law increased. The reception of learned ius commune had advanced to Germany during the fifteenth century, and it was only logical that the learned legal scholarship now reached Scandinavia. Influences spread to Scandinavia through two principal channels. The centralized royal power in Denmark and Sweden needed learned legal experts to deal with their European counterparts. The Scandinavian royal chanceries therefore hired German, or sometimes Dutch, legal professionals to represent them in diplomatic negotiations and to counsel them in legal questions. The number of Swedes and Danes studying in foreign universities rose, and domestic universities were founded as well. The establishment of the high courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries caused, if not an influx of ius commune into the legal practice, at least an increasing influence of common European legal scholarship.
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