Medieval historians note that women in armor were the exception rather than ... more than one woman rode out with them like a knight and showed (masculine) endurance in spite of the weakness ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last section of the exhibit features 19th-century replicas of knight-related shields, armor and weapons as nostalgia for aspects of medieval times inspired artisans of the time. “People ...

Clearly, a knight's shining armor required a lot of energy to wear, and the Leeds researchers wanted to find out just how much this metal wardrobe wore down medieval warriors—and how badly it ...

And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail. It’s a great unsolved mystery of medieval manuscripts. As Got Medieval ...