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Cunegonde's kidnapping : a story of religious conflict in the age of 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 a cyc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, Benjamin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Cast of Main Characters; Introduction; One: Between Them Sleeps the Devil; Two: Baptism Is Baptism; Three: On This Soil; Four: Flouting Authority; Five: Beggar Dogs; Six: Reprisals; Seven: A Moral Certainty?; Eight: Their High and Mighty Lordships; Nine: Afterlives; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.