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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Series Editors' Preface -- Emma O. Bérat / Rebecca Hardie: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Julia Hillner / Máirín MacCarron: Female Networks and Exiled Bishops between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: The Cases of Liberius of Rome and Wilfrid of York -- 1. Women, Networks and the Return of Liberius of Rome -- 2. Presences and Absences of Women in Wilfrid of York's Network -- 3. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Lucy K. Pick: Networking Power and Gender at Court: An Eleventh-Century Diploma and ˋLas Meninas' -- 1. Social Networks and Medieval Documents -- 2. Urraca Fernández's Diploma for Túy -- 3. Las Meninas -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Jitske Jasperse: With This Ring: Forming Plantagenet Family Ties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rings: Status, Senses and Animated Stones -- 3. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Friendship and Beyond -- 4. Heirs and Heirlooms -- 5. The Personal is Political: Family Ties and Political Allies -- 6. Conclusion: Material Items Shaping Ties -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Abigail S. Armstrong: English Royal Family Ties: Edward I and his Breton Nieces -- 1. Marie: A Courtly Education -- 2. Eleanor: The Religious Life -- 3. Peace-weavers and Intermediaries? -- 4. Married to the Enemy -- 5. Indifferent and Unbending -- 6. Conclusion: Political and Affective Ties -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Mercedes Pérez Vidal: Female Aristocratic Networks: Books, Liturgy and Reform in Castilian Nunneries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New Sources, New Perspectives: Liturgical Books and Luxury Items -- 3. Sub Regularis Observantia: Circulation of Observant Ideals through Books and Artefacts -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature.

Stephanie Hollis: Dynastic Visions: Founder Abbesses of Wilton and Barking and their Eleventh-Century Successors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contextual Background -- 3. The Visions of St Edith of Wilton -- 4. The Vision of St Wulfhild of Barking -- 5. Alfgifu of Barking's Visions of St Ethelburg -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Alyssa Gabbay: Mothers, Liver-Eaters and Matrilineal Descent: Hind bint 'Utba, Mu'āwiya and Nasab (Filiation) in Early Islam -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- Karen Dempsey: Herstory: Exploring the Material Life of Gundrada de Warenne -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Who was Gundrada de Warenne? -- 3. A Home from Home? Castle Acre in Context -- 4. Creating Connections: From Caen to Cluny and Castle Acre -- 5. The Curious Case of Gundrada's Tomb Slab: Memory, Materiality and Marriages -- 6. Fashion and Politics: Who Wears Castles in their Hair? -- 7. ˋBinding' Books: The Crowland Psalter -- 8. Senses of the Past: Protective Charms and Anxieties of Childbirth -- 9. Material Lives -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- List of Contributors.

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