Editor's Preface

I am especially pleased to present our readers the second of the two issues of Illinois Classical Studies, published in 2017. This is a special issue, guest edited by Antony Augoustakis, former Editor of Illinois Classical Studies, and Barbara Wallach of the university of Missouri-Columbia.

Barbara Wallach had proposed that Illinois Classical Studies host Luitpold Wallach's unfinished edition of the first two books of Alcuin's Libri Carolini. The legacy of the text is fraught with complexities surrounding its authorship; its historical, religious, political, and intellectual import provided compelling arguments for publishing Professor Wallach's edition. We are especially pleased to pay tribute to Luitpold Wallach, a member of the faculty at the Department of the classics at Illinois (1967–78), whose contributions as a scholar to the study of Classics are also a testament of the struggles that he and other Jewish scholars underwent, as they strove to establish and secure academic positions in America after the end of World War II.

I would like to thank the guest editors, who have worked painstakingly on this difficult and important edition. They have been an exemplary team and brought their intellectual talents and technical expertise to bear upon Professor Wallach's edition of the Libri Carolini. I would also like to thank Antony Augoustakis, Head of the classics Department, as well as the College of liberal arts and sciences, and associate dean martin Camargo for their continuing support. Special thanks are due Clydette Wantland, Kristen Dean-Grossmann, and the team at the university of Illinois Press for all their help and guidance.