Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia: The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists Moder Kjell .
Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia: The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists Moder Kjell . This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.The entwinement…
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Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia: The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists Moder Kjell .
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. It recounts this history through biographical case studies. 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.
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 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.