What was the Renaissance?
a. a period--during the thirteenth century--of renewed interest in ancient civilizations in Europe
b. a period of artistic and literary achievements in Europe--from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries--inspired by new interest in the classics
c. the eighteenth-century era of renewed interest in classical Greece and Rome
d. the rebirth of classical learning in the Middle East between the late fourteenth and the early seventeenth centuries