William Turpin is grateful above all to Meagan Ayer and Bruce Venarde for their careful reading of the text and notes. I am also grateful to my online alumni Latin readers, and to Jordan Jackson, Ivy Johnson, Lucian Kapushoc, Joseph Petchauer, and Claire Pettit, students at Dickinson and Swarthmore, who read through the Latin text with me to improve the notes and vocabulary. Gabriel Moss (https://mossmaps.net) created the wonderful maps.
In summer 2025 Jessica Shapiro, Anjali D Gaba, Alexis Wall, Benjamin Wahl, Neha Sharma, Kate Sims, Waylon Malarkey, Samuel Porter, Felix Mao, Juliette Editoiu, Anya Albright, Makyia Linson, Daniel Labuda, Madeleine Okun, Alexa Wiener, Simrit Chauhan, Collin Kim, Laura Su, and Cricket MacDonald read all of Books 1-5, and about half of Books 6 and 7 as part of the 2025 DCC High School Internship Program. They worked under the direction of Dr. Álvaro Pires (PhD in Classical Philology, Brown 2025; Adjunct Faculty, Writing Program, Dickinson College) and suggested many improvements for the notes and vocabulary lists. Dr. Pires created a list core features of Medieval Latin syntax common in Gesta Francorum, and a list of frequently recurring words that confused students because of the change in usage or absence from Classical Latin.