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Pedagogical resources include a detailed chronology, study questions, a glossary, 4 maps, and 14 images. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Vikings and their legacy. Philibert introduce students to the process of historical inquiry.

A compelling chapter entitled "How Do We Know About the Vikings?" and a case study on the wandering monks of St. Viking biographies provide students with information on important figures in Viking lore such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardaughter, a female Viking traveler. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The book closes by examining the reasons for the decline of hostageship in the Early Modern era, and the rise the modern variety of hostageship that was addressed by the Nuremberg tribunals and the United Nations in the twentieth century. It explores the logic of agreements, the identity of hostages, and the conditions of their confinement, while shedding light on a wide range of subjects, from sieges and treaties, to captivity and ransom, to the Peace of God and the Crusades, to the rise of towns and representation, to political communication and shifting gender dynamics. Hostages in the Middle Ages traces the development of this institution from Late Antiquity through the period of the Hundred Years War, across Europe and the Mediterranean World. From the eleventh century, hostageship diversified, despite the spread of a legal and financial culture that would seem to have made it superfluous. In the Early Middle Ages, hostageship was principally seen in warfare and diplomacy, operating within structures of kinship and practices of alliance characteristic of elite political society. Medieval hostages are thus best understood not as simple pledges, but as a political institution characteristic of the medieval millennium, embedded in its changing historical contexts. In principle, the force of the guarantee lay in the threat to the life of the hostage if the agreement were broken but, while violation of agreements was common, execution of hostages was a rarity. They were a means of guarantee used to secure transactions ranging from treaties to wartime commitments to financial transactions. In medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken. When the fragile negotiations turn deadly, Alaric must choose between his mission and his desire to protect Elisead from the mysterious forces working against peace between their peoples. Now, his greatest challenge is to resist Elisead, the auburn-haired beauty who captivates him completely. To build an alliance with a local Pict chieftain, Alaric agrees to exchange hostages-and claims the chieftain's daughter as his leverage.

Alaric sets sail from the Northlands with the weighty responsibility of making a permanent settlement in Pictland. But when she witnesses a terrifying band of Northmen land on the shores of her village, she senses that her fate lies with the golden leader who entrances her with his dancing emerald eyes and claims her with his forbidden touch. Yet the forest spirits whisper to her, calling her into the woods to carve in stone the long forgotten markings of the old ways. As the daughter of a proud Pict chieftain, Elisead's duty is to make a marriage alliance for the betterment of her people.