EL RENACIMIENTO. NOTAS SOBRE LA FORMACIÓN DE UN CONCEPTO

Abstract

Some data are gathered here for the revisión of the concept of Renaissance as a critical and historiographical model. The starting point is the origins of the period itself, with the basic element of its conscience of change, its opposition to previous models and its willingness to create a new culture by modifying its relationship with the Classic heritage. The origins of the concept follows, as a lexical formulation, from the humanists themselves up to the cannonical studies at the end of the 19th century. A special attention is paid to the Spanish literary historiography originated in the 17th century and above all to Illustration and its relations with the notion “golden century”.