The audience howled. 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 ...

The most unsettling of the armor sets is the one for the Prince of Crime, the Joker. It's a terrifying take on the medieval jester. The face mask immortalizes the demented ear-to-ear grin that's ...

Medieval armor has a bad reputation when it comes to how much movement is possible for a fully-armored and outfitted knight. Chances are you’ve bought into the notion that it resulted in clunky ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland have unearthed a gauntlet likely worn by a medieval soldier or knight ... was a “completely preserved gauntlet of armor,” according to a Google-translated ...

Treadmill tests of volunteers in medieval armor revealed that the extra work required to move in the suits may have outweighed their protective benefits. Cynthia Graber reports Medieval armor ...