ABSTRACT
This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.
The entwinement of law and religion in Scandinavia encompasses an unusual history, not widely known yet important for its impact on contemporary political and international relations in the region. The volume provides a holistic picture from the first written legal sources of the twelfth century to the law of the present secular welfare states. It recounts this history through biographical case studies. Taking the point of view of major influential figures in church, politics, university, and law, it thus presents the principal actors who served as catalysts in ecclesiastical and secular law through the centuries. This refreshing approach to legal history contributes to a new trend in historiography, particularly articulated by a younger generation of experienced Nordic scholars whose work is featured prominently in this volume.
The collection will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History and Law and Religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|52 pages
The Middle Ages
chapter 2|16 pages
Legal reforms around 1200 in Denmark
chapter 3|23 pages
Swedish Church Law around 1300
part 2|94 pages
Reformation and early modern times
chapter 7|23 pages
Archbishop Laurentius Petri (1499–1573)
part 3|45 pages
The enlightenment—secular law in Christian societies
chapter 10|18 pages
Natural law and the struggle with pietism in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway
part 4|88 pages
National romanticism and constitutionalism
chapter 13|36 pages
Shaping the Danish people’s church in the context of freedom of religion
chapter 14|8 pages
Christian legal historian and intermediary of Henric Schartau’s religious heritage
chapter 15|16 pages
The Theological Battle for Freedom of Religion in Sweden
chapter 16|19 pages
Karl Gustaf Ehrström (1822–1886)
part 5|93 pages
Modernity