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

Discusses the 1762 interfaith conflict in which a Catholic woman named Cunegonde is arrested for kidnapping a baby slated for Protestant baptism, triggering a violent religious war on the Dutch-German border.

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• Authors: Benjamin Kaplan, Benjamin J Kaplan, Benjamin J. Kaplan, Kaplan Benjamin J.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2015
• EAN: 9780300187366
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18736-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; The Lewis Warpole Series in 18th Cent Culture & History(YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, C 1700 To C 1800