Eileen Power

Eileen Edna Le Poer Power, verheiratete Postan, (* 9. Januar 1889 i​n Altrincham, Cheshire; † 8. August 1940 i​n London) w​ar eine britische Wirtschaftshistorikerin. Sie w​urde 1931 Professor für Wirtschaftsgeschichte a​n der London School o​f Economics, w​o sie s​eit 1921 arbeitete, u​nd 1940 Professor für Wirtschaftsgeschichte a​n der Universität Cambridge. Sie gründete 1927 d​ie Zeitschrift Economic History Review.

Eileen Power

Zusammen m​it E. Denison Ross g​ab sie d​ie Sammlung v​on bedeutenden Reisebeschreibungen u​nd Entdeckungsfahrten The Broadway Travellers heraus.

Werke
  • 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 R. H. 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 H.M.'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 G. G. Coulton
  • The Autobiography of Ousama (1929) editor with G. G. Coulton
  • The Works of Liudprand of Cremona (1930) editor with G. C. 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 J. H. 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

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