Michael Postan: Papers 20th century

Power, Eileen, 1889-1940

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Postan, M. M. (Michael Moïssey), 1899-1981

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Michael Moissey Postan

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Michael Moissey ('Munia') Postan (1899-1981) was born in Bessarabia in September 1899. He came to England in 1920, and studied at the London School of Economics from 1921 (B.Sc., 1924; M.A., 1926). In 1926 he became the research assistant of Eileen Power (1889-1940), whom he married in 1937. He edited Power's Ford Lectures for publication after her death, and published some of her essays as Medieval women (1975). Postan held lectureships at University College London, 1927-1931, and at the L.S.E,...