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colour and aspect. After the first Crusade, say after THE 

 YEAR noo to draw a precise line, and conscious that in 

 so doing we are understating the case, as the next chapter 

 will convince us light dawns rapidly, and the appellation 

 can apply intellectually no longer in any way. The XHIth 

 century was so fruitful that it would have witnessed a 

 complete revival had it not been for the great wars which 

 slackened the intellectual movement. 



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