The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918 Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi meticulously staged

meticulously staged

and the will to survive

Decline and Fall

is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature

though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination

The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918 Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi meticulously stagedA 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