Citizenship and Exile: English Republicanism in a Transnational Context

Abstract

This article assesses the language and actions employed by English republicans in European exile during the 1660s and 1670s to conceptualise their transnational political and religious identity, their sense of citizenship, and their relationship to their home country. It argues that the republican exiles continued to see themselves as political actors on behalf of their country and their ‘cause’, if not necessarily of a specific government.

Keywords

• citizenship
• republicanism
• exile
• seventeenth century