What was vellum ?

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

A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s. B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381. C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476....

Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

A. Dante’s Divine Comedy B. Boccaccio’s Decameron C. The Dream of the Rood D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women...

Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?

A. the short story B. the heroic epic C. the morality play D. the romance...

Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?

A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform. B. The common people were still essentially pagan. C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic. D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners....

In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth B. the Gawain poet C. the Beowulf poet D. Chrétien de Troyes...