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[8] This may be misleading, however, as the term "beaver" can also refer to a piece of plate-armor which protected the neck. [3] The French literary critic Jacques Derrida references the literary power of the visor in Specters of Marx, viewing the visor as conferring "the power to see without being seen" on the wearer. [9]
This was the tax on moveable property and income, and it could be imposed at varying rates. Likewise, the Saladin tithe, imposed in 1188 to raise funds for a proposed crusade by King Henry II, was levied at the rate of 10% of all goods and revenues, with some exceptions for a knight's horse and armor and clerical vestments. Also excluded were ...