The Historiography of Transition

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.¿