Editing Renaissance (section)

==Other Renaissances==
The term ''Renaissance'' has also been used to define periods outside of the 15th and 16th centuries in the earlier [[Medieval renaissances|Medieval period]]. [[Charles H. Haskins]] (1870–1937), for example, made a case for a [[Renaissance of the 12th century]].<ref>Haskins, Charles Homer, ''The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century'', Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927 {{ISBN|0674760751}}.</ref> Other historians have argued for a [[Carolingian Renaissance]] in the 8th and 9th centuries, [[Ottonian Renaissance]] in the 10th century and for the [[Timurid Renaissance]] of the 14th century. The [[Islamic Golden Age]] has been also sometimes termed with the Islamic Renaissance.<ref>Hubert, Jean, ''L'Empire carolingien'' (English: ''The Carolingian Renaissance'', translated by James Emmons, New York: G. Braziller, 1970).</ref> The [[Macedonian Renaissance]] is a term used for a period in the Roman Empire in the 9th-11th centuries CE.

Other periods of cultural rebirth in [[Modern era|Modern times]] have also been termed "renaissances", such as the [[Bengal Renaissance]], [[Tamil Renaissance]], [[Nepal Bhasa renaissance]], [[al-Nahda]] or the [[Harlem Renaissance]]. The term can also be used in cinema. In animation, the [[Disney Renaissance]] is a period that spanned the years from 1989 to 1999 which saw the studio return to the level of quality not witnessed since their Golden Age of Animation. The [[San Francisco Renaissance]] was a vibrant period of exploratory poetry and fiction writing in [[San Francisco]] in the mid-20th century.