Why was there so little champart rent in medieval England?

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The reasons for the relative unimportance of champart (share‐cropping) rent in medieval England are explored. An explanation is suggested in terms of the considerable power of the English landlord class: a class with great social control over an unfree peasantry, and which, therefore, was free to choose the most suitable form of rent. This was sometimes labour rent and sometimes money rent. The need for money was great, but there was no need to resort to sharecropping ‐ unlike, for example, Europe, where, during the period of rising grain prices (especially during the thirteenth century) money rents tended to stay fixed, because of peasant resistance. English landlords, further, preferred to realise their rents in money because sterling currency was relatively stable ‐ compared, certainly, with continental currencies.

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