A R Bell

Biographic Data

ID27925
NAMEA R Bell
GIVEN NAMESA R
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL A R
AFFILIATIONSICMA Centre
ORCID0000-0003-4531-0072
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS165
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Medieval Property Investors, ca. 1300–1500

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEEnterprise & Society2019Cited by: 1References: 7

    This paper uses a data set of freehold land and property transactions from medieval England to highlight the growing commercialization of the economy during that time. By drawing on the legal records, we are able to demonstrate that the medieval real estate market provided the opportunity for investors to profit. Careful analysis of the data provides evidence of group purchases, multiple transactions, and investors buying outside their own locali…

  • A reappraisal of the freehold property market in late medieval England

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEContinuity and Change2019

    This article re-examines the late medieval market in freehold land, the extent to which it was governed by market forces as opposed to political or social constraints, and how this contributed to the commercialisation of the late medieval English economy. We employ a valuable new resource for study of this topic in the form of an extensive dataset on late medieval English freehold property transactions. Through analysis of this data, we examine h…

  • Is There a ‘Magic Link’ Between Research Activity, Professional Teaching Qualifications and Student Satisfaction

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris BrooksARTICLEHigher Education Policy2018Cited by: 1

  • Time-varying price discovery in the eighteenth century

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLECliometrica2016

  • Cambium non est mutuum

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2016Cited by: 2References: 4

    A major gap in our understanding of the medieval economy concerns interest rates, especially relating to commercial credit. Although direct evidence about interest rates is scattered and anecdotal, there is much more surviving information about exchange rates. Since both contemporaries and historians have suggested that exchange and rechange transactions could be used to disguise the charging of interest in order to circumvent the usury prohibiti…

  • The credit relationship betweenHenryIIIand merchants ofDouai andYpres, 1247-70

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2014Cited by: 1References: 38

    This article looks at an important but neglected aspect of medieval sovereign debt, namely 'accounts payable' owed by theCrown to merchants and employees. It focuses on the unusually well-documented relationship betweenHenryIII,King ofEngland between 1216 and 1272, andFlemish merchants from the towns ofDouai andYpres, who provided cloth on credit to the royal wardrobe. From the surviving royal documents, we reconstruct the credit advanced to the …

  • The Medieval Pilgrimage Business

    Open AccessA R Bell, Richard Dale et al.ARTICLEEnterprise & Society2011Cited by: 2References: 6

    Although medieval pilgrimage has been the subject of extensive historical research, the economic and financial dimension has been somewhat neglected. This paper is an attempt to provide a synthesis of published and unpublished work on pilgrimage, focusing on the business management and promotional aspects of pilgrimage shrines. From the literature reviewed, it is clear that many ‘modern’ business practices were being widely used by pilgrimage cen…

  • Waging war in the fourteenth century

    Alba Curry, Anne Curry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2011

    The papers in this special issue exemplify how, through the study of sources beyond the chronicles which have tended to dominate historical writing about fourteenth-century military history in western Europe, we can advance our knowledge on how war was waged by the English — and on some occasions by their enemies too

  • Valuing medieval annuities

    Open AccessA R Bell, Adrian Bell et al.ARTICLEExplorations in Economic History2010Cited by: 1References: 26

  • New Regime, New Army? Henry IV's Scottish Expedition of 1400

    Alba Curry, A R Bell et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

  • Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality

    M Gurven, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 40References: 67

    We present empirical measures of wealth inequality and its intergenerational transmission among four horticulturalist populations. Wealth is construed broadly as embodied somatic and neural capital, including body size, fertility and cultural knowledge, material capital such as land and household wealth, and relational capital in the form of coalitional support and field labor. Wealth inequality is moderate for most forms of wealth, and intergene…

  • Pastoralism and Wealth Inequality

    M B Mulder, Ila Fazzio et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 52References: 50

    Pastoralist societies are often portrayed as economically egalitarian, reflecting the volatile nature of livestock herds and the existence of multiple institutions that allow for the redistribution of wealth as a form of insurance. Motivated by an interest in the role of intergenerational transmission in structuring persistent inequality, we examine the extent of intergenerational transmission of material wealth (four measures) and embodied wealt…

  • Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter-Gatherers

    E A Smith, Kim Hill et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 59References: 58

    We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined broadly as factors that contribute to individual or household well-being, ranging from embodied forms such as weight and hunting success to material forms such household goods, as well as relational wealth in exchange partners. Intergenerational wealth transmission is low …

  • Interest in Medieval Accounts

    Open AccessA R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEHistory2009Cited by: 4

    The charging of interest for borrowing money, and the level at which it is charged, is of fundamental importance to the economy. Unfortunately, the study of the interest rates charged in the middle ages has been hampered by the diversity of terms and methods used by historians. This article seeks to establish a standardized methodology to calculate interest rates from historical sources and thereby provide a firmer foundation for comparisons betw…

  • The Fourteenth century soldier - More Chaucer’s knight or medieval career?

    A R BellCHAPTERMercenaries and Paid Men2008

    This chapter provides some thoughts about what soldiers would get up to as part of a ?normal? career. In more detail, are the careers of Chaucer?s Knight and a ?normal? soldier mutually exclusive or are there identifiable intersection points suggesting that a ?normal? career would pick up on highlights from Chaucer?s Knight. The chapter begins by looking at the well known sources from the Court of Chivalry, and then extend this search to mercenar…

  • Leger est aprendre mes fort est arendre ’

    A R Bell, Chris Brooks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2006Cited by: 2

    It has long been known that English Cistercian monasteries often sold their wool in advance to foreign merchants in the late thirteenth century. The abbey of Pipewell in Northamptonshire features in a number of such contracts with Cahorsin merchants. This paper looks again at these contracts in the context of over 200 other such agreements found in the governmental records. Why did Pipewell descend into penury over this fifty year period? This ca…