renaissance

1. (historical) The 14th-century revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning that originated in Italy and spread throughout Europe over the following two centuries.historical

1. (by extension) Any similar artistic or intellectual revival.Examples: "the Harlem Renaissance"; "Gelernter believes that computers and their mirror-world capabilities will usher in a Renaissance of the human spirit."; "Out of every Dark Age there emerged new Renaissances of civilization (Goody 2010; Modelski 2007), and over time they expanded the boundaries of civilization leading to the formation of new empires such as the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman empires in the west, and similar new empires in east and south-east Asia (China and later empires in Burma, Korea, and Japan), Africa (the Bantu), and south America (the Incas)."broadly