ABSTRACT
Between 1628 and 1674, no less than three books on how and where to study medicine were published by prominent Danish physicians. They were presumably in the first instance aimed at Danish medical students, but most likely also hoped to cash in on the growing northern European market for such books. All of them may well have been inspired by the new methodological literature about how to undertake educational travel which had been published from the late 1570s, even if only the last of the Danish manuals explicitly acknowledged its debt to one of these books, namely Theodor Zwinger’s Methodus Apodemica (1577).1 It is noteworthy that nearly all the authors of these methodological tracts were Protestants. However, bearing in mind that most of the students undertaking the perigrinatio academica were from Protestant northern Europe heading for the Catholic south that can hardly be a surprise and may not have any confessional significance.2
