1. Note Edward W. Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Penguin: London, 1995) pp. 42–3, 76, 84ff., passim.
2. See Heinrich von Sybel, The History and Literature of the Crusades (Lady Duff Gordon, trans. and ed.) (Chapman and Hall: London, 1861), p. 341, n. 55, p. 344, n. 57.
3. Cf. A.C.E. Franquet de Franqueville, Le premier siècle de l’Institut de France, Vol. 2 (J. Rothschild: Paris, 1895–96), p. 402.
4. George Peabody Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (Beacon Press: Boston, 1959), p. 157.
5. On the publishing history and reception of Michaud’s Histoire des Croisades, see Jean Richard, “De Jean-Baptiste Mailly à Joseph-François Michaud: un moment de l’historiographie des croisades (1774–1841),” Crusades, Vol. 1 (2002), pp. 1–12.