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What is MRTS?

Founded and directed by Mario A. Di Cesare, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton, MRTS was the publishing program of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton from 1978 to 1996. While in New York, the series produced over 150 hardcover volumes, spawned a paperback series called Pegasus, and housed the journals Exemplaria, Milton Quarterly, and General Linguistics. MRTS's mission was and continues to be simple yet twofold: to produce basic first-rate scholarship such as fundamental reference works and critical editions and translations of works not generally available; and to produce these works at prices individuals can afford.

In 1996, when Professor Di Cesare was nearing retirement, he divided what had become an immense enterprise into two parts, MRTS, which is the main series of hardcover books, and Pegasus Press, which embraces the paperback series, journals, and electronic publications. He then successfully negotiated new homes for both parts. MRTS came to the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University in September 1996, and Pegasus moved first to the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and then into private hands eight years later. ACMRS continues to maintain the original goals for MRTS set down in 1978.


Publishing Staff

Director and General Editor:

Robert E. Bjork

Assistant Director:

William F. Gentrup

Manager of Design and Production:

Todd Halvorsen

Managing Editor:

Roy Rukkila

Editorial Assistant:

Leslie MacCoull

Research Assistant:

Editorial Board:

Michael J. B. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
Roger Dahood, University of Arizona
Paul Freedman, Yale University
Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles
Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University
Norbert Samuelson, Arizona State University
Richard C. Trexler, University of Binghamton (SUNY)
Retha M. Warnicke, Arizona State University
Diane Wolfthal, Arizona State University


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