From the innovations of the Normans in the 11th century, to the increasingly more elaborate armor of the late 13th century, knights were constantly seeking ways to reduce their vulnerability on ...

The popularity of jousting grew during the first half of the 13th century, partly because of royal bans on the team tournaments, first in England and then in France.Initially they were often part ...

The magnificent late-13th-century priory church at Chetwode, ... Our cultural imagination of mediaeval England from movie depictions is of castles, knights in shining armour, ...

Armor from later periods than the Middle Ages has been tested several times, for example in the 2017 episode of the TV show Nova, 'Secrets of the Shining Knight,' in which a late 16th century ...

From the late 13th century onwards funeral effigies of monarchs and other royal persons were carried in a funeral procession on the coffin beneath a canopy. The effigy was generally close to the ...

A palace at the Tower of London that was the home of King Edward I in the late 13th Century has been opened to visitors for the first time. The palace, situated above the Traitor’s Gate ...

NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the ...