Table of Contents

1. The State of Play: Medieval Hostageship and Modern Scholarship

[Matthew Bennett and Katherine Weikert]

2. Aldhelm "Old Helmet," First Bishop of Sherbourne, and his Helmgils, "Helmet Hostage," First Abbot of Glastonbury, on the Dorset/Devon Coast at Lyme: The Making of a West Saxon Bishopric

[Katherine Barker]

3: Perceiving and Personifying Status and Submission in Pre-Viking England: Some Observations on a Few Early Hostages

[Ryan Lavelle]

4. The Role of Hostages in the Danish Conquests of England and Norway, 1013-30

[Alice Hicklin]

5. Warrior Narratives and Hostageship Ethos: Old French Literature and "Reality" in the Twelfth Century

[Matthew Bennett]

6. Exigens Obsides Ab Eis: Hostages Under King John of England, 1199-1216

[Cristian Ispir]

7. Female Hostages: Definitions and Distinctions

[Gwen Seabourne]

8. The Princesses Who Might Have Been Hostages: The Custody and Marriages of Margaret and Isabella of Scotland, 1209-1220s

[Katherine Weikert]

9. "Thy Father's Valiancy Has Proved No Boon": The Fates of Helena Angelina Doukaina and Her Children

[Annette Parks]

10. The Royal Prisoner of Henry IV and Henry V: James I of Scotland, 1406-24

[Gordon McKelvie]

11. Commanding the Crown: Royal Hostages in the Wars of the Roses, 1455-83

[Alex Brondarbit]

12. Hostages and the Laws of War: The Surrender of the Castle and Palace of Rouen, 1449-68

[Rémy Ambühl]

About the Author

Matthew Bennett formerly taught at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Katherine Weikert is Lecturer in Early Medieval European History at the University of Winchester.