the revival of learning and culture | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries | all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge |
| a record or narrative description of past events |
| the aggregate of past events |
| the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future |