Thomas Murner's book, "On the Great Lutheran Fool," (1520) belongs to the most important and sharpest of the anti-Reformation and anti-Lutheran satires of the early 16th century. With wit, coarse comedy, and blithe malice, the recalcitrant Franciscan hurdled the cobblestones, with which his opponents had provided him in numerous pamphlets, and conjured and banished under ludicrous circumstances the personified Reformation. Martin Luther himself he ended without the sacraments and was buried in a latrine. Murder was certainly convinced of the needs for changes in the church, but he consequently rejected the Reformation. More recently, he is seen as the learned "Reactionary," however, in his outrageous satirical and auto-satirical alignment of text and image; but above all through his configuration of an enormous eloquence in conflict with a poetological abyss, from which satire drew its tense strength and also revealed itself as a text of the coming modernity.