Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c. 1630–1800

Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen, LL.D. (2018), a postdoctoral researcher in Legal History at the University of Helsinki, has written on the history of the legal profession, legal education, and the judiciary in Sweden and Finland from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesPart 1: Setting the Scene for Swedish Lawyers’ Travels1 Introduction1 Research Questions2 Previous Research3 Sources and Methods3.1 University Matriculation Records as Sources3.2 The Academy of Turku in Finland as Representing the Swedish Situation3.3 On Law Students and Universities3.4 Comparisons4 The Structure of the Book2 Studies Abroad as a European Phenomenon1 Universities in Europe1.1 The Character of Medieval and Early Modern Universities1.2 Teaching Law and the Emergence of a Legal Profession2 The Travelling Student throughout the Centuries2.1 The Peregrinatio Academica2.2 The Noble Traveller2.3 Swedes in Europe before the Seventeenth Century3 Issues of Religion3.1 The Universities and Confessional Questions3.2 Religious Control of Student Travels4 SummaryPart 2: Swedish Lawyers’ Education Abroad3 Turku Law Students at Dutch Universities 1Leiden1.1 The University of Leiden1.2 Legal and Political Education in Leiden1.3 Backgrounds of Turku Students in Leiden1.4 Information on the Studies of Turku Students in Leiden1.5 Careers of Turku Students in Leiden2 Other Dutch Universities3 Summary4 Turku Law Students at German Universities1 Rostock1.1 The University of Rostock1.2 Legal Education in Rostock1.3 Backgrounds of Turku Students in Rostock1.4 Information on the Studies of Turku Students in Rostock1.5 Careers of Turku Students in Rostock2 Jena2.1 The University of Jena2.2 Legal Education in Jena2.3 Backgrounds of Turku Students in Jena2.4 Information on the Studies of Turku Students in Jena2.5 Careers of Turku Students in Jena3 Halle3.1 The University of Halle3.2 Legal Education in Halle3.3 Backgrounds of Turku Students in Halle3.4 Information on the Studies of Turku Students in Halle3.5 Careers of Turku Students in Halle3.6 The Francke Foundations in Halle4 Greifswald4.1 The University of Greifswald4.2 Legal Education in Greifswald4.3 Backgrounds of Turku Students in Greifswald4.4 Information on the Studies of Turku Students in Greifswald4.5 Careers of Turku Students in Greifswald5 Other German Universities6 Summary5 Beyond the Netherlands and Germany: Some Examples of Other Destinations1 Dorpat2 Rome3 “Other Travels Abroad”Part 3: Reasons and Consequences6 Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Rush to Study Abroad1 The Political Setting in Seventeenth-Century Sweden 1.1 The Political Reality at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century1.2 Building a Great Power1.3 The Position of the Nobility1.4 Early Modern Diplomacy and the Swedish Lawyer2 The Restructuring of the Judiciary2.1 The Courts of Appeal2.2 The Local Courts of the Towns and Countryside2.3 Advocacy3 Educational Efforts in the Seventeenth Century3.1 Swedish Universities3.2 The Educated Nobleman3.3 Encouraging Studies Abroad in the Seventeenth Century4 Student Networks4.1 Networks of Turku Law Students4.2 Networks Abroad4.3 Patronage, Advancement, and Upward Social Mobility5 Summary7 The Choice of University1 Geography and War2 Religion2.1 Religious Control of Studies Abroad2.2 Pietism and Turku Law Students3 Swedish-Dutch Relations 4 Summary8 The Decrease in Studies Abroad in the Eighteenth Century1 Changes in the Political Situation1.1 Absolutism, a Weakened Aristocracy, and the Great Northern War1.2 From the “Age of Liberty” to Gustav III’s Absolutism2 The Changing Swedish Universities3 A More Established Judiciary3.1 State Bureaucracy and Advancement in the Administrative System3.2 Courts of Appeal and Town Courts Compared4 From Reception of Foreign Law to Nationalist Inclinations?5 Summary9 Comparative Aspects1 The Swedish Way?2 The Lawyers’ Way?10 Conclusions Appendix 1 Swedish Monarchs 1523–1809 Appendix 2 The Structure of the Swedish Central AdministrationSources and BibliographyArchival SourcesPrinted SourcesLiteratureOnline SourcesUnpublished PresentationsIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects and Places

"The work’s greatest merit is its level of factual detail and the abundance of information which it presents on the history of the state and law, and on the history of education and of the elites of the Kingdom of Sweden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [...] a valuable prosopographical study which contains a wealth of biographical data regarding a few dozen persons who held positions in the judiciary, civil service, diplomatic service and the military, and will undoubtedly be of use for comparative research into the elites of early modern Europe." Marcin Broniarczyk, in Kwartalnik Historyczny 128 (2021).