The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human.

Medieval historians note that women in armor were the exception rather than the rule, and the awe-struck language of the people who wrote about them seems to back that up: Armored women are ...

Over his armor, he wears a red brigandine, a cloth garment studded with metal. On the other side of the cage is forty-seven-year-old Jason Bryant—five foot seven, 155 pounds—in a black brigandine.

This is the world of Buhurt, modern medieval battle where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer each other with blunted steel swords, axes and maces until someone goes ...

This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel swords, axes and maces ...

Discover the world of medieval knights and see how their armor was made. Once upon a time, knighthood was serious business, and for countless medieval fighters, their armor was what stood between ...

Armor makers busy ahead of Medieval battle replay By Reuters July 13, 20106:24 AM PDTUpdated July 13, 2010 ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But ...

The modern-day knights used 2.1 to 2.3 times more energy walking with their armor on compared with walking without it. Running with armor took 1.9 times the energy as running armor-free.