This book is about the sixteenth-century Dutch refugee community in Wesel – a medium-sized town in the German duchy of Cleves, close to the Netherlands borders. At first sight, it seems to fit into the well-established tradition of scholarship on exile and international Calvinism. But this is not really the case. Challenging notions of confessionalisation among refugees, Jesse Spohnholz instead aims to uncover the dynamics of religious toleration in a major sixteenth-century centre of asylum. This approach makes for some refreshing and sophisticated perspectives on the topic of exile. Refugee centres like Wesel may be an unlikely setting for practices of religious tolerance, but Spohnholz reminds us that the town in fact incorporated Calvinist, Lutheran, Anabaptist and Catholic communities. He shows how these different groups negotiated religious differences and developed a peaceful modus vivendi. Integrating the idea of Christian unity and confessional separation, Wesel's inhabitants appear to have practised a form of religious coexistence, while also remaining fundamentally ‘intolerant’ towards other faiths. The main line of argument of this book contends that religious toleration was not the outcome of (pre)Enlightenment or secular ideals, but the product of locally developed settlements between ordinary people. One of the assets of this case study is its ability to connect Wesel's local forms of religious coexistence to more general patterns in early modern Europe. Many of Spohnholz's conclusions resonate with recent scholarship of Benjamin Kaplan, Alexandra Walsham, Judith Pollmann and Keith Luria, but in each case he adds some pertinent reflections of his own. This is a cogently argued book that deserves a wide readership.