Jacob Burckhardt, Lecture on early modern history, vol. 1: 16th century, critical edition from the original manuscripts with commentary, edited by Hans Berner, Wolfgang Hardtwig, Christine Tauber, with the collaboration of Jürgen Große and Wolfram Knäbich

作为《雅各布·布克哈特全集》批判版的一部分，本出版物旨在首次提供他关于早期近代史的演讲手稿和他关于反改革时代的演讲手稿。原始手稿和Burckhardt的补充和补充在这里结合在一起，并就文本关键问题和内容进行分析。这些首次出版的材料，以及对布尔克哈特资料的重建，使我们能够追溯他对欧洲早期现代时期的解释；因此，它们构成了19世纪史学的重要来源。这本带有评论的批判版的出版是雅各布·布克哈特（Jacob Burckhardt Werke， JBW）全集不可缺少的一部分，也是非常需要的，因为关于早期近现代历史的讲座为布克哈特对现代欧洲国家形成的一些未知方面提供了新的视角。虽然学者们熟悉他对意大利文艺复兴的看法，但没有书面资料来传播他对北欧文艺复兴和宗教改革的解读。因此，关于早期近代史和反改革时代的演讲手稿的批判版的出版将涵盖雅各布·布克哈特全集的一个重要愿望。与此同时，它也为我们提供了一种途径，让我们得以了解布克哈特的历史观以及他超越历史决定论的具体史学思想。

As part of the critical edition of the complete works of Jacob Burckhardt, this publication is meant to make accessible for the first time his lecture manuscripts on early modern history and his lectures on the times of counter-reformation. The original manuscripts and Burckhardt¿s additions and supplements are here joined together and analyzed regarding text critical issues and content. These materials, published for the first time, and the reconstruction of Burckhardt¿s sources allow to trace back his interpretation of the early modern period in Europe; as such, they constitute a paramount source for the history of 19th-century historiography. The publication of this critical edition with commentary is an indispensable part of the complete works of Jacob Burckhardt (Jacob Burckhardt Werke, JBW) and highly in need, as the lectures on early modern history shed new light on some unknown aspects of Burckhardt¿s view on the formation of the modern European states. Whereas scholars are acquainted with his ideas about the Italian Renaissance, there has been no written source to transmit his reading of Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe. The publication of the critical edition of the lecture manuscripts on early modern history and on the times of counter-reformation will hence cover an important desideratum of the complete works of Jacob Burckhardt. At the same time it provides access to until now unknown aspects of Burckhardt¿s conception of history and of his specific historiographical thought beyond historicism.