English Republican Exiles in Europe During the Restoration

Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Networks and communities: 1. Cross-channel connections; 2. Local support, confessional and cross-confessional connections; Part II. Exiles, assassins and activism: 3. The nature of exile and its dangers; 4. Plots, conspiracies and ideas; Part III. Works of exile: 5. Ludlow's protestant vision; 6. Sidney's rebellious vision; 7. Neville's utopian vision; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Gaby Mahlberg is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and the author of Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century (2009). With Dirk Wiemann, she is co-editor of European Contexts for English Republicanism (2013) and Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism (2014).

Summary

Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration.

Product details

• Authors: Gaby Mahlberg, Gaby (University of Warwick) Mahlberg, Mahlberg Gaby
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108841627
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84162-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Society and culture: general