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OK, the 2nd Latern Council of 1139 was supposed to have banned crossbows in warfare between Christians, on the grounds of preventing superfluous/unnecessary injury (which OTL is a key IHL principle as underpinned by subsequent treaties like the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration on Exploding Bullets & the 1907 Hague Conventions). Could the Catholic Church have also instituted other arms control arrangements during medieval times on similar grounds ? What other weapons could've poss been subjected to Papal bans ? What about Greek fire & other incendiary weapons ?
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