Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Benjamin J. Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered...Read more