The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration

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).

• 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.

'A significant contribution to our understanding of the physical, mental and intellectual worlds inhabited by exiles such as Sidney, Ludlow and Neville … What Mahlberg's study shows is the importance of transnational, intercontinental networks for the survival and dissemination of heterodox ideas, and she demonstrates that these networks helped mitigate against an 'experience of defeat' for the exiled republicans-rather, instead, a patient and intellectually fertile experience of waiting for their time to come again.' Matthew Jenkinson, English Historical Review