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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 14

      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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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 14

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      what im thinking is like gunpowder is a really distinct technology. you can't mix it up with any ancient tech. with it you must (??) have a sense that something has changed: no one in the Bible has a cannon, nor in the Iliad https://twitter.com/AlfredDolan1/status/1415495783202402305?s=19 …

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 14

      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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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 14

          eigenrobot Retweeted xenoanthropology

          someone may have written a dissertation hmmhttps://twitter.com/LericDax/status/1415495947468034048?s=19 …

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          xenoanthropology @LericDax
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          here we go https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfa7ueibez6cmc4/washa%20-%20paracelsus%2C%20alchemy%2C%20gunpowder%2C%20philosophical%20nitre.pdf?dl=0 …
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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 14

          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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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 15

          eigenrobot Retweeted Alvaro de Menard

          bacon writing a bit laterhttps://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1415688295678423044?s=19 …

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          Alvaro de Menard @AlvaroDeMenard
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          Bacon has some good bits on this stuff, though he's writing several generations after the introduction of printing. pic.twitter.com/maBzCQvA4b
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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 15

          eigenrobot Retweeted Alexander D'Angelo

          evidence from literaturehttps://twitter.com/SirJasperRules/status/1415695084692164612?s=19 …

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          Alexander D'Angelo @SirJasperRules
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          At the end of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, siege guns appear - Mordred uses them to besiege the queen in Arthur's absence. So they seem associated with the collapse of the chivalric ideals and good order that Arthur had spent his life developing.
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        1. auto-pilot‏ @_auto_pilot Jul 14
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          iirc up until 1600(?) armor could stop most shot. proofing had already been in practice for any weapon under the sun. with shot, they'd fire at the plate and embellish the little dent w/ signatures and art. it was a mark of good craft. idc, read about this as a curious teen.

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