This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a

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

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized