How did the knights of Europe and the Catholic Church react to the increasing prevalence of armor-piercing gunpowder weapons and pike formations as the medieval period was ending?
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How did the knights of Europe and the Catholic Church react to the increasing prevalence of armor-piercing gunpowder weapons and pike formations as the medieval period was ending?
>knights of Europe
By becoming well paid officers in the newly formed armies, highly educated man of skill who could sell their services, administrators, focusing down on the landlord business and maybe a bit of trade.
>Catholic Church
Probably just shrugged and continued their usual politics.
What did you expect?
Well the Catholic Church already tried to ban Christians from using bows and crossbows on each other so them being angry about guns wouldn't be out of character. They're not even big fans of guns today.
>ban on missle weapons
Never worked and was apparently not really pursued. I never heard of anybody being condemned by the church for using missile weapons.
And I don't know of any document after the Second Council of the Lateran that tried to reinforce the original "prohibition".
The Catholic Church doesn't actively hunt down people who have abortions either, that doesn't mean it's not still condemned as a sin.
And still people have abortions, kill each other, bribe their way through live, rape, etc. Condemnation from a vague source of morality does little to affect the human condition.
>The Catholic Church doesn't actively hunt down people who have abortions either
Is that due to the fact that they currently don't want to or don't have the means to?
> Is that due to the fact that they currently don't want to or don't have the means to?
You know the answer. They have no power to do it. If the Catholic Church still had any power, you bet your ass that a lot of people would be getting burnt.
Vatican banks still pretty influential
>already tried to ban Christians from using bows and crossbows on each other
This was ignored by everybody. It wasn't even the most nonsensical thing proposed in the council of Lateran
>What did you expect?
Probably something like banning firearms, like what they did to crossbow
Because the crossbow ban was so effective right?
By commissioning artists to make pictures commemorating historical events, but with anime girls so that coomers don’t lose interest after a moment or two
homie this stuff has been happening since humans could make art. The only difference between Pic related and OP's picture is artstyle
> The only difference
And talent, execution, impact, target audience, presentation, and spiritual significance
do you think the ukraine "saint javelin" woman icon/idol shit is the same as anime girls with guns or what you posted?
I prefer the anime
make thicker armour
>make thicker armour
Unironically this I don't see why guns are a problem a musket probably can't pierce more than 1 inch of steel why not make 1 inch thick full plate armour. Also have you read this and accepted him picrel.
The amount of armor required to stop a musket shot makes it prohibitively heavy
muskets and plate armour coexisted for centuries
only because muskets took 1000993839 years to reload
If you want head to toe coverage, maybe. The average heavy cavalryman's cuirass in the 18th and 19th centuries was perfectly capable of stopping typical hand held firearm bullets.
knights and military men in general are the earliest adopter of fire-arms
They still rode horses, wore better armor, and had advantageous battlefield roles. Except this time around they had nice salaries instead of fiefs and officer ranks.
So they were better off in the 1500s-1600s than previously.
by using artillery to form gaps for them to exploit then using the infantry to hold them
They got thicker plate armor, ditched shields for blunderbuss, and carried longer thinner hollow spears for lancing. The Roman Catholic Church was more focused on doing something about the Protestant reformation and the encroaching Ottoman Empire
>They got thicker plate armor
Did it work?