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Mercia
An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe
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- English
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Mercia
An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe
About this book
The kingdom best remembered for Offa and his famous dyke was not only a dominant power on the island of Britain in the eighth century, but also a significant player in early medieval European politics and culture. Although the volume focuses on the eighth and ninth centuries when Mercian power was at its height, it also looks back to the origins of the kingdom and forward to the period of Viking settlement and West Saxon reconquest. With state-of-the-art contributions from experts in palaeography, art history, archaeology, numismatics and landscape - as well as from historians - this book establishes a new baseline for Mercian scholarship, by covering the rise and fall of the kingdom, its major institutions, relations with other political entities as well as its visual and material culture.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context
- Part I: The Mercian Polity: Church and State
- Part II: Parallel Cultures
- Part III: The Material Culture of Mercia
- Part IV: The Visual Culture of Mercia
- Part V: Mercia in Retreat
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Manuscripts Cited
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