Knights accepted a certain amount of risk when they went to war, so wearing an inch-thick, 200-pound impenetrable iron suit just wasn't done. They still needed to be able to move. Those serfs aren ...

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 ...

“I always wanted to be a knight and play with swords and wear armour,” he says, “and I see this one knight run across the field so fast and throw down this guy twice his size, ...