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

and the will to survive

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

Decline and Fall

The first edition of the book was compiled by the Duchamp Centre and printe for the exhibition at the Galleria Milano in 1974

and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces

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