Champart
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Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Champart (Script error: No such module "IPA".) was a tax in Medieval France levied by landowners on tenants. Paid as a share of the harvest, the amount due varied between <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄6 and <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄12, and typically <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄8 of the cereal crop.
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Beginning in the early modern period, champart was converted into a cash rent, first in the Île-de-France region.
References
- Fossier, Robert, "Cens" in Gauvard, C., de Libera, A. & Zink, M. (eds), Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge. Paris: PUF/Quadrige, 2nd edn, 2004. Template:ISBN