I. Practices of book-giving: secular and sacred. The book as dangerous gift? The evidence of 'heretical' texts in England / Anne Hudson ; Gifting and circulation of devotional works in Syon Abbey and its community / Ann Hutchison ; Mirrors for princes as book gifts in late medieval England / Ulrike Grassnick ; Representation - papal homage - discussion of reform: aspects of the Roman a cappella masses in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and their transmission in choir books / Daniel Glowotz ; Gift exchange at the French courts around 1400: manuscripts as gauges of social relations? / Jan Hirschbiegel ; Book gifts at the Burgundian-Habsburgian court / Hanno Wijsman ; "Deditissimus seruus": Jean Mallard's book presentations to Francis I, Henry VIII and others: their form and function / James Carley ; Au roy vrayement chrestien, Edvard: book gifts to Edward VI / Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser ; Gift books for Queen Elizabeth I: court ceremony vs. the printing house / Jane Lawson - II. Book gifts and cultural networks: concepts and case studies. Introduction: cultural networks of the past / Tobias Budke ; Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea and the network of Stephen Scrope and Sir John Fastolf / Kerstin Meyer-Bialk ; chronicles and genealogies during the wars of the roses / Hayrie Salish ; Humanist printing networks: the Thomas More circle and John Rastell / Torsten Wieschen ; Re-forming connections: evangelicals and their book gifts between England and Europe / Tobias Budke ; Petruccio Ubaldini and network analysis: historical uses for a modern concept / Janika Bischof.