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The Asnelles tithe barn is a building located in the municipality of Asnelles, Normandy. This type of building, typical of the Middle Ages and the Old Regime, was used to store tithes, taxes in kind collected from the harvests of peasants for the benefit of the Church or local lords. These barns were often strategic places in the economic and social organization of the countryside.

In a region like Normandy, where agriculture has long been the basis of the economy, tithe barns played a central role. They symbolized both the wealth of land and the power of religious or seigneurial institutions. Their presence attests to the importance of redistribution and resource control systems in rural societies in the past.

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