(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain is a collection of essays that broadly examines the symbiotic relationship between the European and British reformations from around Luther to the middle of the seventeenth century. As such there is no central thesis, but there is at least one common assumption--that reform was a continual process (xvi). These essays were first presented at the British Academy in 2007.There are no weak essays here: all deserve their place. The two introductory essays--one each by the two editors--are valuable analyses of methodology and historiography, respectively. Polly Ha addresses the problematic term (problematic at least to the reviewer) in regards to the relationship between the two reformations. Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor Emeritus as well as Elton's successor at Cambridge, provides many examples of geographic tunnel vision that have appeared throughout the history of historical writing on the Reformation in Britain. His chapter would serve as particularly good background reading for graduate or seminary students, so they too will avoid the Anglo insularity that guided the landmark contributions of Aubrey Moore, Owen Chadwick, Father Philip Hughes, and others.As for the rest, Torrance Kirby's essay Peter Martyr Vermigli's Political Theology and the Elizabethan Church fills a sizeable gap in the subject, as he provides detailed evidence to support his claim that the Italian reformer Vermigli played a pivotal role in the formation of the protestant religious settlement under Edward VI and consolidation under Elizabeth (83). John Craig's piece on the politics of book purchases by parishes reveals that not all required texts were indeed really required after all. Some of which was required was readily purchased, but some other supposedly required texts were not. The requirement that Erasmus's Paraphrases and John Jewel's writings be purchased was generally heeded; but Foxe's Acts and Monuments , at least according to archival data, was not as frequently acquired, displayed, and maintained as much as many Reformation scholars had previously thought. Neither was Henry Bullinger's Decades , and other texts, for that matter. Other essays in The Reception address such variant topics as the Latin Bibles of the 1530s and 1540s, holdings in private and university libraries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the reception of Martin Luther's writings in Britain, the ways by which John Knox and Christopher Goodman implemented Genevan elements in their churches in Scotland, the religious--and not political--aspects of Anglo-Palantine relations, the Scottish application of Martin Bucer's ecumenical ideas, and seventeenth-century Moravian reformer Jan Amos Comenicus. …