Resulting from a scholarly conference held on the ultimate memorial site of Dutch Calvinism, the historic city of Dordrecht, the essays of this volume claim to present new facts and analyses concerning the Synod, its context, and its legacy. To a large extent, this assertion proves to be justified, particularly as the conference papers include many groundbreaking contributions on, for instance, the Synod's international character. In a more general sense, the mixture of meticulously documented and carefully nuanced case studies collected in this volume have benefitted from the superseding of the primarily national perspective so prominent in earlier historiography. Some imbalances, lacunas, or even one-sidedness may persist, however. Though the study's strong scholarly character precludes any semblance of partiality, full-fledged Arminian contributions, oddly enough, are almost completely lacking therein. Probably, Brill Publishers will argue away any enduring Arminian sense of deprivation, as the Remonstrants had their international conference papers on the 400th year of Arminius's death published separately (Th. Marius van Leeuwen, Keith D. Stanglin, Marijke Tolsma, eds. Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe [Leiden: Brill, 2009]). Yet, at the risk of sounding ungrateful, perhaps this volume's greatest merit is evoking a desire for a comprehensive and synthesizing monograph on the Synod, based on both volumes. For its own part, this important and welcome book provides a solid and learned historical base for it.