Michael W. Herren is a Canadian historian, particularly in antique and medieval Latin literature, currently Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at

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, Toronto. In 1990, he founded ''The Journal of Medieval Latin'' at

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. He is a Fellow of the

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and

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and, after retiring in 2006, he was honored with a

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. A year later, he was named a distinguished visiting professor at

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academic staff of York University 20th-century Canadian historians Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 21st-century Canadian historians

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