As if flying arrows and burning pitch weren't enough to worry about, medieval knights also had to battle their own armor. A new study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that wearing ...

As if flying arrows and burning pitch weren't enough to worry about, medieval knights also had to battle their own armor. A new study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that wearing ...

History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between ...

It’s commonly thought that medieval knights were weighted down by their heavy armour, making for clumsy battles with limited mobility. But according to a new study, that may not have been the case.

Even in New York, a city where pretty much anything goes, the sight and sound of knights in shining armour swinging swords at each other still draws a crowd. “Are you ready for a medieval rumble?” ...

The clash of swords, axes and armor fed cheers from a crowd of several hundred. One recent weekend at the Texas Renaissance Festival, a scrum of armored knights appeared to be fighting for their lives ...

Armored Combat is a competitive international sport that features steel medieval weaponry and armor. The Wardens, Colorado’s Medieval Armored Combat team, have made themselves known this year by ...