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The Mercian Chronicles

King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918

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The Mercian Chronicles

Von: Max Adams
Gesprochen von: Kris Dyer
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 Bloomsbury presents The Mercian Chronicles by Max Adams, read by Kris Dyer.

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 Ælfred. 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 that discovered the means to exercise central political authority for the first time since the Roman empire. That authority was used to construct trading networks and markets; develop economic and cultural links with the Continent, and lay the foundations for a system of co-ordinated defence that Ælfred would reinvent at the end of the ninth century.

Two kings, Æthelbald (716–757) and Offa (757–796) dominate the political landscape of the rising power of Mercia. During their reigns, monasteries became powerhouses of royal patronage, economic enterprise and trade. Offa constructed his grandiose dyke along the borders of the warlike Welsh kingdoms and, more subtly, spread his message of political superiority through coinage bearing his image. But Æthelbald and Offa between them built something with an even more substantial legacy – a geography of medieval England. And they engineered a set of tensions between kingship, landholding and church that were to play out dramatically at the dawn of the Viking Age.

In this, the latest of his sequence of histories of Early Medieval Britain, Max Adams re-connects the worlds of Oswald, Bede and Ælfred in an absorbing study of the landscape, politics and society of a fascinating century.©2025 Max Adams (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Europa Großbritannien

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A brilliantly executed attempt to recover Mercia from the shadows and place it back at the heart of the historical narrative ... In his conclusion, Adams modestly claims to have thrown “no more … than another lighted candle into the shadows”. But in illuminating the long-hidden history of England’s original heartland, he has achieved far more than that. (Philip Parker)
A new and welcome perspective on what is still, after so many centuries, the heartland of England, and which was, perhaps, the kernel of the English state. (Tim Shippey)
Adams provides a unique perspective on the mechanisms of politics and power, and does not shy away from drawing connections between the past and the present ... Sure to become a classic on one of the most neglected yet fascinating parts of medieval history. (Liberty Spicer Hinze)
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