Background -- The Equations of Motion for Extensible Strings -- Elementary Problems for Elastic Strings -- Planar Steady-State Problems for Elastic Rods -- to Bifurcation Theory and its Applications to Elasticity -- Global Bifurcation Problems for Strings and Rods -- Variational Methods -- Theory of Rods Deforming in Space -- Spatial Problems for Rods -- Axisymmetric Equilibria of Shells -- Ten…