Papal Privileges and the ‘Mercian Supremacy’ (<i>c</i>. 770–<i>c</i>. 830)
Benjamin Savill
Abstract Chapter 5 turns to the transformed political landscape of ‘Mercian Supremacy’ later eighth and earlier ninth centuries, exploring ways in which Mercian kings, queens, abbesses used new kinds papal privileges help tighten their grip on familial (monastic) properties, secure inheritance plans. It argues that it was these decades may well have been utilised more effectively England than at any other time; moreover, strategies pursued by royals were quite unique, sharply differing from what we see contemporary Carolingian empire, or periods. also addresses problem why record events appears become so distorted centuries.
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