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.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |52 pages
Cultural Approaches to the Transition Issue
chapter |17 pages
From Orality to Print
chapter |16 pages
Popular Justice and Legal Transition
part |48 pages
Transition in the Religious Sphere
chapter |16 pages
Historiographical Transition from Renaissance to Counter-Reformation
chapter |16 pages
“Unearthing Chaos and Giving Shape to It”
part |32 pages
Transition in the Economic Sphere
chapter |19 pages
On the Frontier of the Empire
part |64 pages
Transition in the Political Sphere