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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe Bissera V. Pentcheva and literary scholars all workingWeapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technologyand challenging past assumptions about Europe's ''gunpowder revolution''Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of