Matthew Bennett formerly taught at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.Katherine Weikert is Lecturer in Early Medieval European History at the University of Winchester.

• 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]