Johann Michael Moscherosch is one of the most important representatives of German bourgeois culture in the seventeenth century. An erudite man, he was the most vocal and vehement critic of the dangers of foreign influence on German culture; no other writer of the period was filled with a comparable fervor. Moscherosch wove into his writing an extraordinary amount of autobiographical detail and presents to today's reader, as does hardly another writer of his era, his reflections on the political, social, and religious issues of one of the most devastating periods in German history: the Thirty Years' War. In carrying forth the tradition of the great satiric writers of the sixteenth century, Moscherosch inspired the travelogues and satiric writings of the latter part of the seventeenth century, such as the works of Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. Although there has been increased scholarly attention to Moscherosch since the mid...