This volume, a collection of German and English papers presented at a conference in 2016 in Coburg, once asylum to Martin Luther and later home town of Queen Victoria's husband Albert, is one of the many fruits of the Reformation jubilee of 2017. The ‘specific emphases’ (preface) by means of which the conference was to differentiate itself from the various other academic jubilee activities corresponded to the interests of the two historiographic societies responsible for the gathering, the Prince Albert Society and the Society for Bavarian Church History: its focus is on German-English relations in the Reformation and specifically the importance of the Bavarian region of Franconia to which the formerly Thuringian Coburg belongs today. The latter aspect is more or less addressed by the last six papers. The first nine papers, on which this review will concentrate, deal with the English Reformation. Contrary to the subtitle of the volume, however, most of these do not offer a comparison between the Reformations in Germany and in England or discuss processes of transfer and interconnections. This is the case only in Lothar Höbelt's paper, ‘Die vierte Frau, oder: ein Wendepunkt der englischen und Deutschen Reformation?’, on the political importance of the failed marriage of Henry viii with Anne of Cleves (pp. 29–49) and in Katharina Beiergrösslein's ‘“Sanct Robertus” or “vicar of hell”? German and English patterns of perception of Robert Barnes’ (pp. 159–76). Stuart Palmer's ‘A more European Reformation? Urban reform in Henrician Canterbury’ takes as its starting point the so-called urban Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire, which, however, in itself is not described to any great extent, in order to ask whether Canterbury presents a similar pattern, a question which he answers in the negative (pp. 71–92). The other papers deal with Thomas More's treatment of ‘his’ heretics (Georg Eckert, pp. 3–27), the church politics of Elizabeth i and James vi & i (Susan Doran, pp. 51–70), godly women in Elizabethan England (Lucy Kaufman, pp. 93–114), the failure of the Reformation in Ireland (Hiram Morgan, pp. 115–32), Reformation and political culture in early modern England (Ronald Asch, pp. 135–57) and – a rather feuilleton-like piece – Luther images in England (Benjamin Hasselhorn, pp. 177–86). Two papers present fresh work on the basis of primary sources, namely the one by Beyergrösslein on Barnes and Kaufman's on ‘godly women’ which resolutely criticises the revisionist picture of women having been banished to the private sphere through the Reformation. The remaining papers are solid pieces predominantly based on already existing studies, among which only the one by Eckert disappoints in not differentiating between historical analysis and personal value judgement. To sum up: this is an interesting collection of contributions on topics more and less related to its title. As regards production, it is unfortunately not without linguistic flaws and misprints.