This wide-ranging volume opens with an expansive introductory chapter by the editors that, at 157 pages, is the length of a short book. Beginning with an overview of reputation in late medieval England (specifically of kings, knights, saints, and Robin Hood), the chapter then examines the humanist critique of these reputations and analyzes sixteenth- and seventeenth-century biographical writing about English Reformation figures writ large. The introduction and the essays that follow offer valuable analyses of the ways in which the reputations of English Reformation figures were forged, reworked, and contested in shifting contexts, all the way down to the present day. William Sheils uses the canonization of More and Fisher in 1935 to discuss both their reputations and the changing place of Catholicism in early twentieth-century England. Three essays consider Archbishops of Canterbury, with Ashley Null providing a detailed analysis of Cranmer the theologian, David Crankshaw drawing attention to Matthew Parker's work as an ecclesiastical leader, and Felicity Heal tracing the ways in which John Whitgift's reputation has been intimately tied up with shifting assessments of the Elizabethan Church and its controversies. Two chapters focus on women in the English Reformation: Susan Wabuda considers Anne Askew; and Rachel Basch's essay is of particular interest, examining the neglected activities of Margaret Cranmer, Anne Hooper, and Elizabeth Coverdale, three sixteenth-century English bishops’ wives “who should have enjoyed posthumous reputations, but did not” (224). The final three essays consider English Catholics, or a suspected Catholic in the case of Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon's essay on the confessionally ambiguous Anthony Munday. Peter Lake and Michael Questier read John Gerard's autobiographical writing in the polemical context of the Archpriest Controversy, and Victor Houliston discusses the many ways in which Robert Persons “has been cast as both villain and hero of the English Catholic Reformation” (421).