Knights had their day in the historical sun when fighting featured grueling hand-to-hand combat with swords, shields and lances. For centuries, they were the top of the food chain, elite fighters and ...

One of the most misunderstood periods of history is the Middle Ages, which ranged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

The Frist Art Museum presents Knights in Armor, an exhibition of remarkable Renaissance arms and armor from the world-renowned collection of the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy. Organized by ...

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

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

The Green Knight swings his battle ax at my head. Teeth clenched, I strike back with my shield to block the blow. My black leather glove only slightly cushions the shock, which reverberates all the ...

To determine how much energy knights in the Middle Ages burnt merely strolling around, British researchers recruited volunteers to dress up in mock-ups of real knightly armor and — in a hilarious ...

The two circled one another; the silence from empty seats where the raucous crowd of spectators would sit made each’s clash of weapons louder. On one side stood Myrtle Beach’s Medieval Times Head ...