The Mercian Chronicles
King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918
$29.26
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781838933265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1838933263 |
| Author: | Max Adams |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | The Founders of Britain Quartet |
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Critics Review
In this this remarkable book, Max Adams breathes new life into the royal families of the largely forgotten Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, which we can now see played a crucially important role in the foundation of the emerging kingdom of England. * Francis Pryor, author of Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons *
Praise for Max Adams:
Gripping, hugely enjoyable and deeply scholarly
A Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages * Tom Holland, The Times *
Adams never forgets to ask what it looked like to the people on the ground * London Review of Books *
A worthy synthesis of what little we know * Gerard de Groot, The Times *
Max Adams
Max Adams is a writer, archaeologist, and woodsman whose work explores themes of landscape, knowledge, and human connectedness with the earth. He is the author of Admiral Collingwood, Aelfred’s Britain, Trees of Life, the bestselling The King in the North, In the Land of Giants, The First Kingdom, and The Museum of the Wood Age. He has lived and worked in the North East of England since 1993.
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