Pinned against a wooden rail, battered with axes, the knight staggered ... modern medieval battle where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer each other with blunted ...

Across America, in front of crowds of thousands, men and women are dressing up as knights from the Middle Ages and fighting one another. The weapons, violence, and chivalry are all real.

and an entire suit of armor donned for use in medieval combat didn't weigh hundreds of tons, even when it was made of iron. That wouldn't make any sense. Knights accepted a certain amount of risk ...

“Are you ready for a medieval ... who is inside that armour. Then you take off your helmet, and you’ve got little Black kids asking if they can be knights, too.” More women are suiting ...

Knights and firearms clashed on the battlefield for over 200 years. A select few suits of armor were crafted with secret techniques that made them stronger than others, possibly even bulletproof.

Photo from the University of Rovira While excavating a cemetery for medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists came across something unexpected: the remains of a woman. Pierced by sharp objects ...

HAVERHILL — There was nothing fake about these fighters. Wearing full body armor and wielding weapons of medieval war, fighters from the Nashua Knightmares battled against combatants from the ...