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Keenan, Edward Louis was born on May 13, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Edward Louis and Emma (Boudiette) Keenan.
( For centuries the exchange of letters between Ivan the...)
For centuries the exchange of letters between Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) and Prince Kurbskii, Muscovy's first notable defector, has been considered an authentic and important source for sixteenth-century Russian history. The Ivan portrayed in these letters has dominated posterity's perception of him and his time. But the provenance of the "Correspondence" has never been properly established. Edward L. Keenan draws on all the tools of source study and literary criticism to demonstrate that the "Correspondence" is a forgery, and in fact was composed some decades later in the seventeenth century. He concentrates on the first letter of Kurbskii, which is the earliest of the letters as well as a source for the later ones, and concludes that it was written between 1623 and 1625 by Semen Ivanovich Shakhovskoi--a conclusion that will necessitate the re-evaluation of sixteenth-century Russian history as it has previously been written by scholars throughout the world. Keenan discusses at length the implications of his discovery and sketches directions for future study, which will include a reconstruction of our conception of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political thought, of Ivan's personality--indeed of the nature of his reign--and of the evolution of Muscovite state ideology.
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Keenan, Edward Louis was born on May 13, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Edward Louis and Emma (Boudiette) Keenan.
AB, Harvard University, 1957; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966; postgraduate, Leningrad State University, 1959-1961.
Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962-1963; instructor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965-1968; lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1970; professor of history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1970; associate director Russian Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1976; director, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976-1977; master North House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1975; dean Graduate School Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1984; department chairman history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988-1991; Mellon professor humanities, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1991. Lecturer Slavic Workshop, Indiana U., 1962-1964. Director Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1981-1983, 86-87, 93, 95.
( For centuries the exchange of letters between Ivan the...)
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He worked primarily on medieval Russia, especially the cultural and political history of Muscovy c. 1400 - c. 1600, Ivan IV and Semen Shakhovskoi, cultural and political relations between Muscovy and the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, and the origin of the Igor Tale. This work has led to renewed interest and debate about the authenticity of the Igor Tale and gained mixed reviews.
Board governors Reza Shah Kabir University, since 1975. Member American Association for Advancement Slavic Studies (president 1994).
Married Joan Glasser, November 25, 1961 (divorced October 1986). Children: Edward, Christopher, Nicholas, Matthew (deceased). Married Judith Kapp Davison, January 4, 1987.