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Although there are contradictory opinions on whether the use of crossbows should be termed archery or not, there are a significant number of reasons pointing towards the fact that crossbows are very similar to other archery equipment. The argument put forward by the purists is that archery is a sport that uses simple vertical recurve … Read more

Crossbows banned by Church in 1139 to minimize deaths among Christian armies from all missile-based weaponry. Consequently, Pope Innocent III attempted to boycott the utilization of arrow-based weaponry against Christians at the second chamber of Lateran in 1139. ‘We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to … Read more