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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction
Rulers of Mercia, c. AD 600 – 874
Chapter 1 - Offa’s Country
The Landscape
Chapter 2 - The People of the Frontier
Chapter 3 - Kingdoms and Armies
Mercia and the Tribal Hidage
‘How the Folk-Kings Flourished’ (Beowulf )
The Warrior Class
Chapter 4 - Penda’s Wars
The Northumbrian Menace
‘Not Angles but Angels’
Penda and Cadwallon
‘The Heathen’
The Battle of the Winwaed
Chapter 5 - Two Treasures
The ‘Sutton Hoo Man’
The ‘Staffordshire Hoard’
Chapter 6 - Penda’s Successors and the Rise of Offa
Wulfhere
Aethelred and Victory in the North
Coenred and Ceolred
Aethelbald
Offa’s Pedigree
Chapter 7 - The Warrior in the Age of the Mercian Kings
Offensive Weapons
Defensive Equipment
Battle Tactics
The Aftermath of Battle
Fortifications, Earthworks and Sieges
Chapter 8 - ‘The Glory of Britain’
The Challenge from Kent
Aethelberht the Martyr
Offa’s Dyke
Offa’s Towns
Offa and Charlemagne
The Coming of the Vikings
Chapter 9 - Offa’s Successors and the Danish Invasions
The ‘Bretwaldas’
Mercia Eclipsed
The Great Army
Chapter 10 - The ‘Liberation’ and the Triumph of Wessex
The Lady of the Mercians
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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