Dr. Michael Herren

The distinguished scholarship on the early Middle Ages of Michael W. Herren, Department of Humanities, Atkinson College, York University, involves a lifetime's work on the "insular" authors of Britain and Ireland. His numerous editions, translations, and commentaries are works of astonishing erudition that frolic confidently in the obscurities of multilingual vocabulary and multicultural reference. The Latin language is the great theme that he takes up in a major new journal he recently founded. He explores, through the language, wider aspects of the culture it bears. These include art, religion, and – in his current, pioneering study – the appropriation of classical myth.