Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

A. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

B. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

C. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

D. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

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