”Renässansen och renässansbegreppet – att kämpa med Burckhardt”: En studie utifrån Johan Nordströms kritik av Jacob Burckhardts Renässanskulturen i Italien
In this essay, I aim to deal with the accounts of the concept of “Renaissance” as a time period. In 1860 the Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt published Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, a work that in many ways has dominated the view of the time period. However, this construction has also been criticized by various historians, who all more or less engage with the concept of Renaissan