Edward L. Keenan

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Edward Louis "Ned" Keenan Jr. (May 14, 1935 – March 9, 2015) was an American professor of history at Harvard University^[1] who specialized in medieval Russian history (especially the cultural and the political history of Muscovy). He became a prominent and controversial figure after conducting various studies that analyzed and ultimately disproved the authenticity of major resources in East Slavic history.^{[citation needed]} Two of his books argue that two texts were not medieval at all, but seventeenth- and eighteenth-century, respectively: The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: The Seventeenth-century Genesis of the "Correspondence" Attributed to Prince A. M. Kurbskii and Tsar Ivan IV (1971),^[2] and Joseph Dobrovsky and the Origins of the "Igor Tale" (2003)^[3] He eventually became one of the world's leading experts on medieval Russian history. He also wrote a number of seminal articles.^{[citation needed]}