Equipped with nearly seventy illustrations, no fewer than eighteen of them in colour, this scholarly book on the relations between Wittenberg and the Danish crown during the Reformation era is a delight to read. The first six chapters are unusually short and amount to little more than a broad introduction to the book. The following five chapters are far more substantial, starting with the exile of the Danish king, Christian ii, in Wittenberg and his relationship with the Wittenberg reformers, especially Luther, which continued after his stay in Wittenberg came to an end. This is followed by a chapter on the Lutheran influences on the evangelical movement in Denmark and Schleswig and, of course, its paramount significance for the Protestant Church Order which was introduced in 1536/37. Another chapter deals with Danish students in Wittenberg in the years leading up to the Reformation in Denmark, primarily with the country's first leading superintendent, Peder Palladius, and the post-Reformation years when royal stipends paid for talented students to receive their theological training in Wittenberg. The book concludes with a chapter on books by Wittenberg theologians translated into Danish and books published by Danish theologians trained in Wittenberg. However, the most significant chapter in this book, and undoubtedly of the greatest interest to scholars of the European Reformation, is that dedicated to the correspondence between the Reformation king, Christian iii (1536–59), and most of the major Wittenberg reformers, such as Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Georg Major and Justus Jonas. From the correspondence preserved one gets a clear impression of how close Christian iii was to the leading Wittenberg reformers – nearly seventy letters exchanged between the king and Melanchthon have been preserved while eighty-eight letters exchanged between the king and Johannes Bugenhagen have survived. Not much was happening within the Lutheran Church in Denmark during the reign of Christian iii without prior consultation with the Wittenberg reformers.