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The Mercian Chronicles

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

Af: Max Adams
Kategori: History & military
Kategori nr.: 9210
Varenr.: 3292067
| Stregkode: 9781838933258
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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 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 ?lfred would reinvent at the end of the ninth century. Two kings, ?thelbald (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 ?thelbald 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 ?lfred in an absorbing study of the landscape, politics and society of a fascinating century.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781838933258
  • Vægt
    690 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Max Adams
  • Forlag
    Apollo
  • ISBN
    9781838933258
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    464
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    HARDBACK
  • Themakode
    NHD, HBJD1, NH, HBLC, 3F, 3H
  • Kategori
    History & military
  • Kategori nr
    9210
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Højde/Dybde (mm)
    164 mm
  • Bredde (mm)
    240 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    42 mm