the svea court of appeal in the early modern period 398 alized the peripheral areas of Europe (the British Isles, the Nordic Countries, andEastern Europe) to a great extent. Those countries did not fit well into this European project, as the reception of theius commune in the European periphery took place in quite different contexts and in other legal cultures. When the Svea Court of Appeal celebrated its 350th year, a Festschrift was published with articles on the history of the court between its foundation in 1614 and the adoption of the new Swedish code in 1734.1143 The narratives and the constructs regarding this concept of history are observed critically in this volume, published 50 years later. Legal history in 1964 meant something else than it does now, in 2014. The perspectives are different, the discourses and the contextual interpretation of the sources are also different from fifty years ago. Early modern legal history has been an increasingly important field of research in recent times. The concepts of judicial revolution, Verrechtlichung, legal transplants and legal transfer have broadened the focus from the reception of ius commune to include judicial cultures, intellectual history, constitutional and public law, and the conjunction of ius commune both with local bodies of law (iura propria) and the local jurisdictions based on royal as well as customary law. Current European legal history research within the early modern period (1500 – 1750) is very extensive and rich. The Treaty of Maastricht in 1992 introduced the creation of the European Union in 1995 and included cultural clauses which not only talked about acommon and converging European culture, but also accepted divergence in respect to language, history and the cultures of the member-states. This almost schizophrenic attitude to European culture has resulted in a very interesting discourse, not only on nation-bound legal cultures but also on national identities related to a merging European Union. In that respect, the 350 year celebration 1998 of the Treaty of Westphalia, which constituted a type of early European constitution for more than 150 years from 1648 up to 1806, also initiated many research projects and funded projects in legal historical research. Germany has maintained a long tradition related to research on the Supreme Court of the Holy Roman Empire or the Imperial Chamber Court, the Reichskammergericht, going back to the early 1970s (and beyond). Professor Bernhard Diestelkamp in 1143 Petrén, Sture – Jägerskiöld, Stig – Nordberg, Tord O:son 1964.
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