Historians Today Generally Use the Term Renaissance to Refer to a Period

Historians today generally use the term Renaissance to refer to a period:

A) in economic history when trade was reborn.
B) in European history when the northern countries dominated the culture of the Continent.
C) in European history between 1300 and 1550,during which all aspects of European life were united by a common spirit of the age.
D) of intellectual rebirth after the Dark Ages,when learning had been extinguished.
E) in intellectual and cultural history,marked by a new interest in the study of classical learning.