Communautés rurales et seigneurs à la fin du Moyen Age

Rural Communities and Squires at the End of the Middle Ages : Some Example in the Berry Region. Action at law was brought between 1492 and 1495 against their squire, a notary of Bourges, by the inhabitants of Saint-Germain-des-Bois in Berry. The dispute bore mainly on a rent, customary since 1202 and rated according to the number of oxen to the team - which levy the squire wanted to extend to horses. This actually meant going back on the parish franchises. The community was partly on rent strike for five years, and study of arrears owed by each member makes it possible to estimate the wealth of the parish regarding draught animals. Only one fourth of tenants seem to have owned these. The dispute also points out the limits of group coherence in the community

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