 This process, referred to as reception, took place in the Holy Roman Empire and the Mediterranean in the 13th-14th centuries, but was much slower to come to northern Europe (e.g., Saxony, Northern France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia).In the 15th century, reception "in complexu" reached the Netherlands while it was associated with the Holy Roman Empire.While Italian lawyers ("mos italicus") were the first to contribute to the new Byzantine-based jurisprudence, in the 16th century, French humanistic doctrinal scholars ("mos gallicus") were most influential.