Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Cunegonde's Kidnapping

A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment [Hardback]

by Benjamin J. Kaplan

Author
Benjamin J. Kaplan
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
January 2015

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£30.68

Save 37%

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Cunegonde's Kidnapping

Today's Price £30.68

Frequently Bought Together

Cunegonde's Kidnapping

by Benjamin J. Kaplan

Hardback

When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World

by Mark I. Wallace

Paperback

Add both to basket for £54.73 and save £22.26

Product Description

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 a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde's Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a "rise of toleration".