Will Coster is Lecturer and Head of History at De Montfort University. His previous publications include Baptism and Kinship in England 1450-1800 (2004). Andrew Spicer is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the co-editor of Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685 (2002).

• 1. Introduction: the dimension of sacred space in Reformation Europe Will Coster and Andrew Spicer; 2. Sacred church and worldly tavern: reassessing early modern divide Bert Kümin; 3. Sacred image and sacred space in Lutheran Germany Bridget Heal; 4. Places of sanctification: the liturgical sacrality of Genevan reformed churches, 1535–66 Christian Grosse; 5. 'What kinde of house a kirk is': conventicles, consecrations and the concept of sacred space in post-Reformation Scotland Andrew Spicer; 6. Psalms, groans and dog-whippers: the soundscape of sacred space in the English parish church, 1547–1642 John Craig; 7. A microcosm of community: burial, space and society in Chester 1598–1633 Will Coster; 8. 'Apud Ecclesia': church burial and the development of funerary rooms in Moldavia Maria Craciun; 9. Reading Rome as a sacred landscape, c. 1575–1635 Simon Ditchfield; 10. Gardening for God: Carmelite deserts and the sacralisation of natural space in counter-Reformation Spain Trevor Johnson; 11. Holywell: contesting sacred space in post-Reformation Wales Alexandra Walsham; 12. The sacred space of Julien Maunoir: the re-Christianising of the landscape in seventeenth-century Brittany Elizabeth Tingle; 13. Sacralising space: reclaiming civic culture in early modern France Amanda Eurich; 14. Breaking images and building bridges: the making of sacred space in early modern Bohemia Howard Louthan; 15. Mapping the boundaries of confession: space and urban religious life in the Diocese of Augsburg, 1648–1750 Duane Corpis.

Review of the hardback: 'This excellent collection, with not a single weak contribution, demonstrated the centrality of material culture and sacred geography to understanding the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical History