The phoenix with a thousand faces: The Reinassance in the ocidental historiography

Abstract

Renaissance was forged as a fundamental historical concept for the Modern Age understanding, however, as we approach a panorama of the controversies related to its historiographic study, we can notice that its amplitude extends from the 13th to the 16th centuries, as well as encompassing the West without the precedence of a supposed Italian centrality. Our aim, then, is to debate the arguments with which contemporary historians have confronted or eluded the artificiality of this historical milieu, as well as, from the evocation of prior and post-Italian "rebirths", to demonstrate how the cultural experience of the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century make possible to question its sacralization.