Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

The Cunegonde's Kidnapping book is a gripping microhistorical study that sheds light on the lesser-known conflict of religious war in early modern Europe, specifically in a remote village on the Dutch-German border.

Drawing from exceptional primary sources, this book provides vivid details of the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the unique character of religious life in a borderland where religious dissenters enjoyed freedoms.

The author challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and reveals that some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a "rise of toleration." With a lucid and fascinating picture of the Enlightenment as an age of prejudice as much as toleration, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in religious history, microhistory, or European studies.