Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918 Publisher / Warrnambool Art Gallery and potters Hamada Shōji and

and potters Hamada Shōji and Bernard Leach

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Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918 Publisher / Warrnambool Art Gallery and potters Hamada Shōji andA 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