The state of play : medieval hostageship and modern scholarship / Matthew Bennett and Katherine Weikert -- 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 -- Perceiving and personifying status and submission in pre-Viking England : some observations on a few early hostages / Ryan Lavelle -- The role of hostages in the Danish conquests of England and Norway, 1013-30 / Alice Hicklin -- Warrior narratives and hostageship ethos : Old French literature and "reality" in the twelfth century / Matthew Bennett -- Exigens obsides ab eis : hostages under King John of England, 1199-1216 / Cristian Ispir -- Female hostages : definitions and distinctions / Gwen Seabourne -- The princesses who might have been hostages : the custody and marriages of Margaret and Isabella of Scotland, 1209-1220s / Katherine Weikert -- "Thy father's valiancy has proved no boon" : the fates of Helena Angelina Doukaina and her children / Annette Parks -- The royal prisoner of Henry IV and Henry V : James I of Scotland, 1406-24 / Gordon McKelvie -- Commanding the crown : royal hostages in the Wars of the Roses, 1455-83 / Alex Brondarbit -- Hostages and the laws of war : the surrender of the Castle and Palace of Rouen, 1449-68 / Rémy Ambühl