The Mercian Chronicles : King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918, Max Adams

The Mercian Chronicles : King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918, Max AdamsNew Paperback A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Mercia its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography. The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history: a shadowland between the death of Bede and the triumphs of lfred. But before the hegemony of Wessex, the kingdom of Mercia spread across a broad swathe of central England was the dynamic heart of a kingship

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