Mercia Mercia

Mercia

The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom

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Publisher Description

Many people know about Wessex, the ëLast Kingdomí of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its zenith Mercia controlled what is now Birmingham and London ? and the political, commercial paramountcy of the two today finds echoes in the past.??Those interested in the period will surely have heard of Penda, Offa, and ∆thelflÊd, Lady of the Mercians ? but remarkably there is no single book that tells their story in its entirety, the story of the great kingdom of the midlands. ??Historically, the records are in two halves, pre- and post-Viking, in the way they have been preserved. Pre-Viking, virtually all the source material was written by the victims, or perceived victims, of Mercian aggression and expansion. Post-Viking, the surviving documents tend to hail from places which were not sacked or burned by the Northmen, particularly from Wessex, the traditional enemy of Mercia. The inclusion of those records here allows for the exploration of Mercia post-924.??Mercia ceased to be a kingdom when Alfred the Great came to power, but its history did not end there. Examining the roles of the great ealdormen in the anti-monastic reaction of the tenth century, through the treachery of Eadric Streona in the eleventh, and the last, brave young earls who made a stand against William the Conqueror, this book shows the important role the Mercians played in the forging of the English nation.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2018
September 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Amberley Publishing
SELLER
Amberley Publishing Holdings Limited
SIZE
2.2
MB

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