How Were Medieval Taxes Collected? (Short Animated Documentary)

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How were medieval taxes collected? They just did the rounds and picked it up, who’d have guessed? Also, rich people didn’t pay it.

Sources:
State, Feudal, and Private Economy in Byzantium by Alexander Kazhdan

Economic Factors in the Decline of the Byzantine Empire by Peter Charanis

On the Importance of Land Tenure and Agrarian Taxation in the Byzantine Empire, from the Fourth Century to the Fourth Crusade by Kenneth M. Setton

How Were Medieval Taxes Collected? (Short Animated Documentary)