We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this ...

In one corner is thirty-seven-year-old Matt Gifford, five foot ten inches, weighing in at 185 pounds. Over his armor, he wears a red brigandine, a cloth garment studded with metal. On the other side ...

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.

This isn't cosplay, reenacting or Renaissance Festival entertainment. It's a real — and violent — sport in which teams of combatants outfit themselves in medieval-style armor and bash each other with ...