Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine, The by James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851)

This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising bourgeois class struggle against each other. Placed in the light of the very recent and polarizing Protestant Reformation, the characters' tensions increase. - Summary by Joel Kindrick