1199English LiteratureMedium
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in________?
Athe Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
Bthe Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Cthe Peasant Uprising of 1381.
Dthe wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.
Correct answer
B. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Explanation
The correct answer is the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s..