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Sverre Bagge's speech at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2006. The speech was part of a session called "Global History, Axial Civilisations, and the Modern Age".

The Symposium was in honor of the 2006 Holberg Prize Laureate Shmuel N. Eisenstadt.

Sverre Bagge, Professor of History and Director of the Centre of Medieval Studies, the University of Bergen.