how did Europeans socially, culturally, intellectually respond to gunpowder in the late medieval era seems like this was a real new thing under the sun and im curious how everyone took it
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this had not been true previously afaik theres a painting or tapestry at the Cloisters where they have some ancient kings (David, Alexander, others) depicted in medieval European martial kit but its hard for me to imagine them adding firearms to such a portrayal
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someone may have written a dissertation hmmhttps://twitter.com/LericDax/status/1415495947468034048?s=19 …
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this is fun focus on Paracelsus one of his names incidentally was etymological basis for "bombast" one of his other names may be familiar to you for another reasonpic.twitter.com/TxyIzqXNYC
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bacon writing a bit laterhttps://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1415688295678423044?s=19 …
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evidence from literaturehttps://twitter.com/SirJasperRules/status/1415695084692164612?s=19 …
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TL;DR it took hundreds of years from the initial introduction of gunpowder before it came to be a dominant element of warfare. As a comparison, how has the emergence of laser weaponry affected your understanding of warfare today?
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