legal history•introduction • kjell å modéer Swedishlegal history researchas a whole saw a shift in focus away from the Middle Ages, as a new generation fixed their sights on the early modernperiod. Swedish legal historians struggled to find an identity of their own, though, despite several great historians being active in the field, with the likes of Eva Österberg, Bengt Ankarloo, and Jan Sundin devoting their research to legal and social historical themes.16 Claes Peterson of Stockholm, with his 1979 thesis on Peter the Great and his administrative reforms, and I with my 1975 thesis on Sweden’s jurisdictions in its provinces within the German Empire, were part of an expanding network, with a number of international conferences in Lund of which the one in 1982 to mark the 350th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Pufendorf was much noted.17 It resulted in a volume of Pufendorf research, which still is frequently quoted in the international literature on the history of international public law.18 Links continued with the members of the Grüne Reihe or Green Series, especially at Frankfurt under Diestelkamp. Diestelkamp was also instrumental in the opening of the Imperial Chamber Court Museum in Wetzlar in 1987, but also for seminars and conferences arranged by the Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung, the Society for Imperial Chamber Court Research, founded in 1985. Bernhard Diestelkamp’s close connections to Lund were recognized by an honorary degree in 1990.19 Diestelkamp has frequently published on judicial legal history from the late mediaeval period to modern times.20 16 Eva Österberg & Sølvi Sogner (eds.), People meet the law: Control and conflict-handling in the courts: The Nordic Countries in the post-Reformation and pre-industrial period (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2000); Eva Österberg & Dag Lindström, Crime and Social Control in Medieval and Early Modern Swedish Towns (Studia Historica Upsaliensia, 152; Stockholm: Almqvist &Wiksell, 1988); Bengt Ankarloo, Trolldomsprocesserna i Sverige (Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 17; Stockholm: Nordiska bokhandeln, 1971); Jan Sundin, För Gud, Staten och Folket: Brott och rättskipning i Sverige1600–1840(Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 47; Stockholm: Nordiska bokhandeln, 1992). 17 Claes Peterson, Peter the Great’s Administrative and Judicial Reforms: Swedish Antecedents and the Process of Reception(Rättshistoriskt Bibliotek, 29; Stockholm: Nordiska bokhandeln, 1979). 18 Kjell Å. Modéer (ed.), Samuel von Pufendorf 1632–1982: Ett rättshistoriskt symposium i Lund, 15– 16 januari 1982(Rättshistoriska studier, 12; Stockholm: Institutet för Rättshistorisk Forskning, 1986). 19 Modéer 2020, 115 ff. 28
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