The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of instruction. In light of works written in Renaissance Italy, ancien r?gime France, and baroque Germany (Andrea Guarna's Bellum Grammaticale [1511], Antoine Fureti?re's Nouvelle all?gorique [1658], and Justus Georg Schottelius' Horrendum Bellum Grammaticale [1673]),...