[Sca-cooks] Menagier Question

[Johnna Holloway]

Power's version was an abridged one. She notes in the introduction that
it was shortened in translation. It was never intended to be the full 
work. Note the decade that she was
writing in and consider that such works of interest to women's
history had yet to find their place in the market. Her story is rather a
tragic one.
She died in 1940 at the age of 41 of heart disease. Her " brief career
-- [was]
divided between Cambridge and the LSE where she became the
second female professor in economic history in Britain
and, above all, where she pioneered a new integrated social and
economic history discipline which she carried beyond academe to ordinary
people."
There are biographies and biographical articles of  Eileen Power
that stress her importance to the field of economic and medieval
studies. One book is A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940.
See--
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0293/n453_v113/21226692/p1/article.jhtml
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/berg2.html
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Whatishistory/berg1.html
for reviews and comments.

Johnnae llyn Lewis


Barbara Benson wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I have been sitting in front of my computer comparing the Eileen Powers (in
>my lap) and Janet Hinson (on the screen) translations of Menagier. I
>expected them to be different, but there are large chunks of text in Hinson
>that are not in the Powers.
>
>I cannot read French so I wanted to get opinions here as to which is the
>more accurate version. I know there are other translations out there - are
>any of them better than these two? The drastic differences between the two
>could lead one to think that they were working from two different copies of
>the original book - one that had some omissions.
>
>I know a consensus has been reached regarding the Apicius translations, but
>I do not know about this one.
>
>Glad Tidings,
>Serena da Riva
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