From the Editors

This issue marks the beginning of the third year of JMRC; with the help of Penn State University Press, over the past two years we have navigated a successful transition from Mystics Quarterly to JMRC’s new format and wider set of interests. We have been pleased by the quality and scope of essays we have received and are looking at ways of attracting material on an even wider variety of religious and cultural experiences. At the same time, we remain committed to our roots in medieval mysticism/visionary literature and continue to publish stimulating work on medieval mystic experience. We continue to sponsor sessions at Western Michigan’s International Medieval Congress, and we encourage all readers who attend this conference to come and share your ideas for future sessions or special issues. Having published one edition (Marleen Cré’s edition of Westminster Cathedral Treasury, MS 4), we look forward to publishing more in the future.

We are planning a special issue titled “Key Questions/New Questions,” for which we are now calling for contributions. In this issue, or perhaps series of issues depending on your responses, we invite both established and up-and-coming scholars to meditate on the key questions or imagine new questions for a variety of subfields served by JMRC. Each essay will be an informal think piece aiming to shake up or reconsider the status quo and challenge current paradigms, with each essay clocking in at about twenty-five hundred words. We will be accepting abstracts for proposed essays through February 1, 2013. Please submit online at www.editorialmanager.com/jmrc.

Many thanks to our readers,

Christine Cooper-Rompato and Bob Hasenfratz