1. “Les mots ne sont plus conçus illusoirement comme de simples instruments, ils sont lancés comme des projections, des explosions, des vibrations, des machineries, des saveurs”: Roland Barthes, “Leçon Inaugurale,” in Roland Barthes. Oeuvres Complètes, ed. Eric Marty, 5 vols. (Paris, 2002), 5:427–46, at 435. The English translation is from Richard Howard, “Lecture in Inauguration of the Chair of Literary Semiology, Collège de France, January 7, 1977,” October 8 (1979): 3–16, at 7.
2. Reinhart Koselleck,"Social History and Conceptual History," in idem, The Practice of Conceptual History. Timing, History, Spacing Concepts, trans. Todd S. Presner et al. (Stanford, 2002), 20-37
3. M. Lynne Murphy and Roberta Piazza, "Linguistic Semantic and Historical Semantic," in Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck, ed. Kay Junge and Krilii Postoutenko (London, 2011), 51-80.
4. L’estoire de Eracles Empereur et la conqueste de la terre d’Outremer; c’est la continuation de l’estoire de Guillaume, arcevesque de Sur, in RHC Oc 2:1–481. In this article, I follow the now customary use of referring to the manuscripts according to the list of Jaroslav Folda, “Manuscripts of the History of Outremer by William of Tyre: a Handlist,” Scriptorium 27/1 (1973): 90–95. I have been able to consult the following manuscripts: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), ms. Français 781 (=F19); St-Omer, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 722 (=F20); Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, ms. 4797 (=F26); London, British Library, Yates Thomson ms. 12 (=F38); Paris, BnF, ms. Français 9086 (=F50); Paris, BnF, ms. Français 24208 (=F51), BnF, ms. Français 2634 (=F57); BnF, ms. Français 2825 (=F58); Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 142 (=F69); Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plu LXI 10 (=F70); Paris, BnF, ms. Français 2628 (=F73); BnF, ms. Français 2631 (=F74); BnF, ms. Français 9082 (=F77). Peter Edbury kindly provided me information on Paris, BnF, ms. Français 9086 (=F50); Leningrad, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, State Public Library, ms fr. f° v. IV. 5 (=F71); Lyon, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 828 (=F72); Paris, BnF, ms. français 9084 (=F78).
5. L’estoire de Eracles, in RHC Oc 2:310. F19, F20, F26, F38, F51, F58, F69, F71, F72, F74, F77, F78 give croiserie. F50 gives croisie. F70 gives croisiee.