Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
- The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s
- The Norman Conquest of 1066
- The Peasant Uprising of 1381
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Explanation
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, occasionally referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries, in England, Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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