ABSTRACT

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new universe,” where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of historians with specializations ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and across political, religious, and social fields, attempt a reinterpretation of “modernity” as the new “Axial Age.”

chapter |20 pages

Transition and Its Phases

Thoughts on Some Issues Raised

part |52 pages

Cultural Approaches to the Transition Issue

chapter |17 pages

From Orality to Print

Revolution or Transition? Street Singers in the Renaissance Multi-Media System

chapter |16 pages

Popular Justice and Legal Transition

Getting the Law Across to the People in the Sattelzeit

part |48 pages

Transition in the Religious Sphere

chapter |16 pages

Historiographical Transition from Renaissance to Counter-Reformation

The Case of Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568)

chapter |14 pages

Perception of Religious Change

The First Jesuits in Austria (Sixteenth Century)

chapter |16 pages

“Unearthing Chaos and Giving Shape to It”

The Society of Jesus after Suppression: Hiatus and Continuity

part |32 pages

Transition in the Economic Sphere

chapter |11 pages

Financial Transitions

A Hypothesis on the Origins of John Law's Project (1720)

chapter |19 pages

On the Frontier of the Empire

Manufacturing and Trade Networks between Continuity and Change (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

part |64 pages

Transition in the Political Sphere

chapter |13 pages

Transitions from War to Peace

Demobilization and Homecomings in Twentieth-Century Europe

chapter |15 pages

Constitutional Lore in Transition

Italy and Germany Post-1945

chapter |16 pages

Democracy in Transition

The Development of a Science of Politics in Western Europe after 1945

chapter |18 pages

Ideology and Transition

European Social-Democracy Copes with the “Consolidation/Dissolution” of the Postwar Years