Best History books of 2015 - Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Ben Kaplan

Tony Barber at the Financial Times has chosen Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Kaplan as one of the best History books of 2015.

Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Ben Kaplan book

1 January 2019

'In 1762, religious conflict flared up on the Dutch-German border when a Catholic woman attempted to kidnap a baby to prevent its baptism in a Protestant church. Kaplan paints a lucid, fascinating picture of the Enlightenment as an age of prejudice as much as one of toleration.'

Read more on the Financial Times website or get the book from Yale University Press!