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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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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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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eigenrobot Retweeted xenoanthropology
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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Alexander D'Angelo @SirJasperRulesReplying to @eigenrobotAt 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.2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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