This volume of essays brings to a close a series of events in memory of Robert Kingdon, one of the most influential Reformation historians of his generation. In 2011, at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, ten sessions were organised in memoriam, and the contributions edited here are a selection from those papers. The contributors include some of Kingdon's former doctoral students as well as some of his fellow scholars, and their essays seek to honour both aspects of his legacy: ‘his own areas of research, focused mainly on Geneva and France, and his ever-present curiosity about other places and subjects that intersected in rich and sometimes surprising ways with his own fields of endeavor’ (p. 10). Accordingly, the ten chapters are presented in three thematic sections (‘Calvinism and its Impact’; ‘Church and State in Early Modern Europe’; ‘Gender, Family, and Marriage’). Reflecting Kingdon's emphases on thorough source analysis and extensive archival research, these essays cover considerable terrain while grounding the discussions in local, sometimes intimate, detail. Three examples may be taken as representative of the whole. In James Tracy's consideration of Reformed perspectives on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict during the 1560s and 1570s, broader military and political developments set the scene for more particular areas of agreement and disagreement between Geneva and Zurich; here the correspondence of Beza, Bullinger and Gwalther illustrates particular concerns and provides local colour. Sean Perrone's examination of Church-State relations in Spain between 1530 and 1558 demonstrates the close monetary relationship between the dioceses and monarchy; here we learn (via several impressive maps and tables) of the financial collections as well as the crown's desperate need for ecclesiastical subsidies to repay funds borrowed from bankers across Europe. William Naphy's contribution on infanticide uses ten cases from the Genevan courts between 1558 and 1642 to shed light on the contexts and motives of individual women who concealed illicit pregnancies or even destroyed their illegitimate infants; here attention is also drawn to the context of how newborns’ deaths were explained across Europe. Other chapters similarly employ microhistories with particular verve to suggest broader developments elsewhere. Echoing Kingdon's own practice in his publications, which from 1984 are included in a bibliography at pp. 291–7, the volume as a whole blends local, regional, national and international concerns and themes. As the third and final Festschrift dedicated to Kingdon (the first edited by Jerome Friedman in 1987, the second by Lee Palmer Wandel in 2003), this book in some respects glances forward to address the continually evolving and expanding field of Reformation studies, but it also looks back with reverence to pay tribute to a man whose influence as a scholar is difficult to put into words. Noteworthy also, though, is the inclusion (pp. 289–90) of the eulogy by Stanley Payne, Kingdon's friend of forty-three years at the University of Wisconsin, for Kingdon may be best remembered not solely as a world-class historian but also as a considerate colleague and gregarious if soft-spoken ‘inspiration to those around him’.