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• Great Britain—History—Charles II, 1660-1685—Biography [Browse]
• Republicanism—England—History—17th century [Browse]
• Republicanism—Europe—History [Browse]
• Neville, Henry 1620-1694—Influence [Browse]
• Sidney, Algernon 1623-1683—Influence [Browse]
• Ludlow, Edmund 1617?-1692—Influence [Browse]

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Ideas in context [More in this series]

Summary note

The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had acted against his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum, opponents of the Stuart regime felt unsafe, and many were actively persecuted. Nevertheless, their ideas lived on in the political underground of England and in the exile networks they created abroad. While much of the historiography of English republicanism has focused on the British Isles and the legacy of the English Revolution in the American colonies, this study traces the lives, ideas and networks of three seventeenth-century English republicans who left England for the European continent after the Restoration. Based on sources from a range of English and continental European archives, Gaby Mahlberg explores the lived experiences of these three exiles - Edmund Ludlow in Switzerland, Henry Neville in Italy, and Algernon Sidney - for a truly transnational perspective on early modern English republicanism.

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ISBN

9781108894463 (ebook)

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