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Walter de Milemete: The Clerk Who Drew the Gun That Changed Everything

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:11.166Z

Spent some time going down a rabbit hole on early firearms history and landed on this piece about Walter de Milemete — a 14th-century English court scholar whose name would be completely lost if not for a single drawing in the margin of a manuscript he produced in 1326. Worth reading if you care about where all of this started. By the 1350s, weapons that had recently been "viewed with great astonishment and admiration" had become "as common and familiar as any other kind of arms." — Petrarch...

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Walter de Milemete: The Clerk Who Drew the Gun That Changed Everything

Walter de Milemete was an English scholar working in the early 14th century whose name would be entirely forgotten by history — except for one illustration. His 1326 treatise De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum ("On the Nobility, Wisdom

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