Sentence:  Remember that in seeking the modern in Utopia we do not deny the existence of the medieval and the <WSD>Renaissance</WSD> there ; we do not even need to commit ourselves to assessing on the same inconceivable scale the relative importance of the medieval , the Renaissance , and the modern . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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