capturing the legal norms variously found in legislation, case law, and doctrine in a single accessible source has been a necessary precondition for the creation and recognition of legal authority and new canons. Yet research has almost exclusively focused on output (codes, precedents, law books), while the function and impact of compilation per se has been disregarded. This essay analyses the reasons for and effects of recycling law in early modern Denmark–Norway. Some of the most influential texts in human history have been identified as compilations. The Bible is a compilation. Many of the great lawbooks are compilations. This includes the Corpus iuris civilis of Roman law and the Decretum Gratiani of canon law, which shaped legal cultures across the world.1 Compilation has been a predominant method of producing legal texts throughout history.2 he effectiveorganization and dissemination of knowledge has been key to all intellectual revolutions in human history. In law, T part iv • intellectual legal history 1 See Tony Honoré, Justininan’s Digest: Character and Compilation(Oxford: OUP, 2010); AndersWinroth, TheMaking of Gratian’s Decretum(Cambridge:CUP, 2000); Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 33. 2 For example, D. Tamm, The History of Danish Law(Copenhagen: DJØF, 2011), 74; Serge Dauchy et al. (eds.), The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture (New York: 198 Legal compilation in early modern Denmark and Norway: Creatively recycling the law 13. Søren Koch Det altsaa, somHr. Udgiveren har behaget at tilregne sig, er dette: at rette Feiler, som forrige oplag haver; at tillæge de siden tilkomne Forandringer i disse Rigers Rettergang, men derimot at fraskille hvad ikke hørde derhen, endelig oh bringe Værket i bequemmere Format, til Lættelse for Kiøberne i Henseende til Priisen. hedegaard, Hojers Juridisk Collegium(1764)
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