Eileen Power

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Eileen Power

Eileen Edna Le Poer Power , married Postan, (born January 9, 1889 in Altrincham , Cheshire , † August 8, 1940 in London ) was a British economic historian . In 1931 she became professor of economic history at the London School of Economics , where she had worked since 1921, and in 1940 professor of economic history at Cambridge University . She founded Economic History Review in 1927 .

Together with E. Denison Ross she edited the collection of important travelogues and journeys of discovery The Broadway Travelers .

Works

  • The Paycockes of Coggeshall (1919)
  • The Unconquered Knight. A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Nino, Count of Buelna de Gamez (1920) editor
  • Medieval English Nunneries (1922)
  • Medieval People (1924)
  • Tudor Economic Documents (1924, three volumes) editor with RH Tawney
  • Don Juan of Persia: A Shiah Catholic (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Pero Tafur travels and adventures 1435-1439 (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Boys & Girls of History (1926) with Rhoda Power
  • The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on Board HM's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679 , editor with E. Denison Ross
  • John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779) (1927) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Cities and Their Stories, an Introduction to the Study Of European History (1927) with Rhoda Power
  • Hans Staden. The True History of His Captivity - 1557 (1928) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Hernando Cortes - Five Letters 1519-1526 (1928) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Huc & Gabet. Travels in Tartary, Thibet and Chinal 1844-46 (1928, 2 volumes) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy By A Citizen of Paris c. 1393 (1928) translator
  • More Boys & Girls of History (1928) with Rhoda Power
  • Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte: Mozart's Librettist (1929) editor with Elizabeth Drew
  • Sir Lancelot of the Lake: a French Prose Romance of the Thirteenth Century (1929) editor with GG Coulton
  • The Autobiography of Ousama (1929) editor with GG Coulton
  • The Works of Liudprand of Cremona (1930) editor with GC Coulton
  • Madame D'Aulnoy: Travels into Spain (1930) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • English Trade in 15th Century (1933) with Michael Postan
  • Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 (1936) editor with E. Denison Ross
  • The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (1941) The Ford Lectures for 1940.
  • Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol. 1: The Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages (1942) editor with JH Clapham
  • Medieval Women (1975)
  • Jahangier and the Jesuits editor with E. Denison Ross
  • Thomas Gage The English-American A New Survey of the West Indies 1648 editor with E. Denison Ross

literature

  • Maxine Berg: A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940 ( review )
  • Ellen Jacobs: Eileen Power (1889–1940) , in: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1350), Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 219-231.

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SURNAME Power, Eileen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Power, Eileen Edna Le Poer (full name); Postan, Eileen (married)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrincham , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1940
Place of death London