This book offers a fascinating glimpse into a little-known aspect of sixteenth-century history and literature. Utz Eckstein was an evangelical author and clergyman in and around Zurich in the 1520s. The two works published in this volume (in the original German and in English translation), the Concilium and the Rychsztag, first appeared in 1525 and 1526 respectively. Written as dialogues in rhyming verse, they have been overlooked until now by most scholars because they are not full-fledged dramatic plays. We are very fortunate that Nigel Harris and Joel Love have now remedied this scholarly neglect, for these dialogues offer wonderful new insight into the early years of the Reformation; specifically, they reveal how events such as the First Zurich Disputation of 1523 and the Peasants’ War of 1525 might have looked to the common observer and how they might have been discussed and interpreted on the street. In their translations, Harris and Love do not attempt to replicate metre and rhyme, but their English prose none the less conveys much of the energy and humour of the originals. The critical introduction is somewhat uneven – the editors spend much more time discussing the Concilium than the Rychsztag, and many aspects of the dialogues’ content and structure are left unexplained – but it is certainly helpful. The reader is left hoping for a monograph-length study on Eckstein and his works and what they reveal about this very important time and place in European history.