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Dr Gaby Mahlberg

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Background

I am a historian and journalist with a special interest in the intellectual and cultural history of the English Civil War and its legacy in the British Isles and Europe. I completed my BA, MA and PhD at the University of East Anglia in Norwich working with J.C. Davis and Mark Knights (now Warwick) for my thesis on the republican thinker Henry Neville (1619-1694).

My first monograph, based on my PhD work, was published as Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game (Manchester: MUP, 2009). My most recent book looks at The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration (Cambridge: CUP, 2020). I am currently working on a new project on 'English Republican Ideas and Translation Networks in Early Modern Germany, c1640-1848'.

Before joining 缅北禁地 as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in December 2020, I taught at the UEA, Queen Mary and Goldsmiths (both University of London), Potsdam University and Humboldt University (Berlin) in Germany and, most recently, across the road at Northumbria University, where I was a (Senior) Lecturer from 2011 to 2015.

I have also worked for various German media, including dpa International, the Catholic News Agency KNA, and the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe n-ost, where I was responsible for the eurotopics press review.

Between April 2015 and November 2020, I worked as an editor for the German Press Agency dpa in Berlin. Since December 2021 I have been working part-time for dpa in the UK.

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Research

Current Research:

This project explores the significance of translations for the transmission of seventeenth-century English republican ideas in the German-speaking lands before the Revolution of 1848-9. German political thinkers at the time looked at the constitutional models of their European neighbours for inspiration as the territories formerly ruled by the Holy Roman emperors struggled against outdated feudal structures and strove for national identity and unity. The project aims to gather a body of material that gives us an insight into the distribution, dissemination and reception of English republican works in Germany in a variety of languages, including English, Dutch, French and Latin as well as German to understand the way in which ideas travelled between countries in the form of print. Combining the history of political thought and the history of the book in innovative ways and taking inspiration from translation studies and social network theory, this project will focus on the way works were translated, edited and rewritten for new contexts and audiences - in this case German society from the later seventeenth century to the Vormärz.

Employing Peter Burke's analytical concept of 'cultural translation', the figure of the translator will be assigned a key role both as the reader and first recipient of a work as well as an independent agent able to shape the text in a new language for a new purpose. Particular attention will also be paid to the relationship between translators, editors and political circles. Challenging a largely anglocentric and transatlantic historiography, this transnational and multi-lingual project thus aims to establish the intellectual reach and legacy of the first English Revolution of 1640-60 on the European Continent by focusing on the country that from 1701 had developed an ever closer relationship with England through the Succession Act which established the Hanoverian dynasty on the English throne.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions website for my project can be accessed .

 

 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Mahlberg G. . Milton Studies 2026, 68(1), 113–132.
    • Mahlberg G. . Huguenot Society Journal 2023, 36, 15-31.
    • Mahlberg G. . History of European Ideas 2022, 48(6), 713-730.
    • Mahlberg G. . Intellectual History Review 2018, 28(1), 79-99.
    • Mahlberg G. . Philosophical Enquiries. Revue des philosophies Anglophones 2017, 8, 35-59.
    • Mahlberg G. . Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique/ French Journal of British Studies 2016, 21(1).
    • Mahlberg G. . Historical Journal 2014, 57(2), 369-396.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘The republican discourse on religious liberty during the Exclusion Crisis’. History of European Ideas 2012, 38(3), 352-369.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Authors Losing Control: The European Transformations of Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)'. Book History 2012, 15.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Henry Neville and the Toleration of Catholics during the Exclusion Crisis’. Historical Research 2010, 83(222), 617–634.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Neo-Harringtonianism and A Letter Sent to General Monk (1660) revisited’. The Seventeenth Century 2009, 24(2), 305-22.

  • Authored Books

    • Mahlberg G. . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
    • Mahlberg G. Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.

  • Book Chapters

    • Mahlberg G. Cato’s Letters and freedom of speech as a natural right in eighteenth-century Germany. In: Dumolyn, J; Haemers, J; Kleij, S; Raffe, A; Veldhuizen, M, ed. Free Speech in Western Europe, 1400-1750. Routledge, 2026. Submitted.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Fitzmaurice A; Hammersley R, ed. Early Modern Rights (c.1500-1700). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. In Press.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Anna Becker; Alessandro Mulieri; Nicolai von Eggers Mariegaard, ed. Radical Republicanism in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2026. In Press.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Gaby Mahlberg & Thomas Munck, ed. Ideas across borders: translating visions of authority and civil society in Europe, c.1600-1840. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Barber A; East K, ed. Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640-1740 : The Politics of Religion. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024, pp.78-96.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Ben-Tov A; Loop J; Mulsow M, ed. Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700. Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp.138-158.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Cuttica C; Peltonen M, ed. Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603–1689. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019, pp.279-296.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Pankratz A; Viol C, ed. (Un)Making the Monarchy. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017, pp.177-200.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Caron N; Marche G, ed. La politisation du religieux en modernité. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015, pp.17-30.
    • Mahlberg G. . In: Margarit L; Montes E, ed. Textos utópicos en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII. Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2014, pp.55-68.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Wansleben’s Harrington, or “The Fundations & Modell of a Perfect Commonwealth”’. In: Mahlberg, G; Wiemann, D, ed. European Contexts for English Republicanism. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Patriarchalism and the monarchical republicans'. In: Cuttica, C; Burgess, G, ed. Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. In Preparation.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘An island with potential: Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)’. In: Davis, JC; Ramiro Avilés, MA, ed. Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Author-Politicians and Political Authors: The Example of Henry Neville (1619-94)’. In: Frenk, J; Steveker, L, ed. Anglistentag 2010, Saarbrücken, Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2011.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘”All the conscientious and honest papists”: Exile and Belief Formation of an English Republican: Henry Neville (1619-94)'. In: Schaff, B, ed. Exiles, Emigrés and Intermediaries: Anglo–Italian Cultural Transactions. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘Republicanism as anti-patriarchalism in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668),’. In: Scott, J; Morrow, J, ed. Liberty, Authority, Formality. Imprint Academic, 2008.
    • Mahlberg G. ‘A Parliament of Ladies und die Öffentlichkeit des Privaten: politischer Diskurs im England des 17. Jahrhunderts'. In: Emmelius, C, ed. Offen und Verborgen: Vorstellungen und Praktiken des Öffentlichen und Privaten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004, pp.229-47.

  • Edited Books

    • Mahlberg G, Munck T, ed. . Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.
    • Cuttica C, Mahlberg G, ed. . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
    • Wiemann D, Mahlberg G, ed. . Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
    • Mahlberg G, Wiemann D, ed. European Contexts for English Republicanism. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

  • Reviews

    • Mahlberg G. . Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2024, 75(3), 597-599.
    • Mahlberg G. . European Review of History 2023, 30(2), 326-328.
    • Mahlberg G. . Journal of Modern History 2022, 94(3), 692-693.
    • Mahlberg Gaby. . The Seventeenth Century 2021, 36(5), 858-860.
    • Mahlberg Gaby. ‘HENRY NEVILLE. The Isle of Pines and Plato Redivivus, ed. David Womersley. Carmel: Liberty Fund, 2021. Pp. lvi + 489. $24; $14.50 (paper)’. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 2021. Submitted.
    • Mahlberg G. . English Historical Review 2019, 134(568), 708-710.
    • Mahlberg G. . Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 2019, 54(1), 98-100.
    • Mahlberg G. . Grotiana 2018, 39(1), 137-151.
    • Mahlberg G. . Reviews in History 2017, 2197.
    • Mahlberg G. . European History Quarterly 2015, 45(3), 596-600.
    • Mahlberg G. . Bunyan Studies 2014, 18, 148-152.
    • Mahlberg G. 'M. Nevitt, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 218. hb. £45, ISBN: 0754641155'. The Seventeenth Century 2013, 22(1).
    • Mahlberg G. The Isle of Pines, 1668: Henry Neville's Uncertain Utopia by John Scheckter. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 2013, 37(1), pp. 87-89.
    • Mahlberg G. 'Political Biblicism and the Coming of Civil War'. History of European Ideas 2012, 38(2), 307-311.
    • Mahlberg G. Gender and the English RevolutionANN HUGHES. Women's History Review 2012, 22(3).