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.

Armored MMA combines MMA's rules and hand-to-hand combat format with the weapons and plated armor of medieval knights. Each match comprises three rounds, two minutes each, fought with shields ...

An American team is in Europe this week for a medieval combat competition. They dress up in period costumes and fight with dulled weapons. Two medieval armored combat world championships are ...

About five years ago, Le, 33, found herself drawn to weapons training and martial arts; then she discovered sword fighting. She was so taken with medieval dueling that she sold her nail salon ...

All that’s known is that they are Medieval in origin ... the sword’s design is similar to “hand-and-a-half” weapons that were popular in Western Europe during the Late Middle Ages ...

But the fourth, they say, may have been used as a medieval hand grenade during the Crusades ... and the history of explosive weapons in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Matheson said in a press release.

It's a great week for going medieval. Kingdom Come ... It's got swords, shields, bows and arrows, siege weapons, and a few mild anachronisms like jewel-encrusted assault rifles and electricity ...