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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Living pledges: A study of hostageship in the High Middle Ages, 1050--1300 Abstract: Although there is a wealth of anecdotal information about hostages in both literary and chronicle sources, no systematic study clearly explains how hostageship worked in medieval Europe; or perhaps more importantly, how it did not. Hostageship is typically represented as a simple transaction. The party who enjoys an advantage, generally a military one, demands hostages because it can. The subordinate party gives hostages because it must. The ever-present threat of harm to the hostages ensures that if they are valued, the hostage-giver will behave in a manner designed to appease the hostage-taker. Frequently, however, actual practice does not support this simple model of hostageship and the major aim of this dissertation is to challenge the model\'s validity when applied to hostageship in the High Middle Ages, especially when state hostages, that is hostages given by one state to another as a part of truces or treaties, are involved. The study primarily focuses on relations in Britain between England, Scotland and Wales between the mid-eleventh and early thirteenth centuries. |
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