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Families were very large, but the majority of the children died. Millions were swept away by the Black Death; millions more by the Crusades. Such books as that of Luchaire, on France in the reign of Philip Augustus, bring vividly before us the horrible condition of society in feudal times, and explain amply the sparsity of the population.
Anselm, Epist. iv. 50, 51; Luchaire, Louis VI, Annales, No. 31. See American Historical Review, viii, 478. Luchaire, Louis VI, Annales, p. cxv. We need not enter into the details of the long struggle between Canterbury and York. The archbishopric of Canterbury was vacant for five years after the death of Anselm; its revenues went to support the various undertakings of the king.
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