John L.I. Fennell
John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), Professor of Russian at Oxford University. Best known to generations of students as author of the Penguin Russian Course.
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The Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners
by John L.I. Fennell
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John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period, and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the turbulent politics of northern Russia, which was ultimately to become the tsardom of Muscovy, but he also gives detailed attention to the vast southern empire of Kiev before its eclipse under the Tatars. The resulting study is a major addition to medieval historiography: an essential acquisition for students of Russia itself, and a book which decisively fills a vast blank on the map of the European Middle Ages for medievalists generally.
The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now. The late John Fennell's last book, is a masterly survey of the development, nature and role of the early Church in Russia from Christianization of the country in 988, through Kievan and Tatar poeriods to 1448 when the Russian Church finally became totally independent of its mother-church in Byzantium.
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Studies of Ten Russian Writers
by John L.I. Fennell
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Book by Fennell, John Lister Illingworth
A historical Russian reader: A selection of texts from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries;
by John L.I. Fennell
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English, Russian
Ivan the Great of Moscow
by John L.I. Fennell
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