Now this isn't pleasant, but we might as well admit it all the same: one of the great pleasures of being proved right is the chance to swagger and gloat and say "I told you so." The U.K.'s crowded ...

A knight's armor weighed about 55 pounds, and even then, that weight was evenly distributed across the body. They might have needed a squire to help don the armor, but they didn't require cranes.

If you've never met a knight in shining armor, this is your chance to go face to face — or face to helmet — with an army of them. After all, from fairy tales to the legend of King Arthur, the ...

To determine how much energy knights in the Middle Ages burnt merely strolling around, British researchers recruited volunteers to dress up in mock-ups of real knightly armor and — in a ...

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 ...

The Queen Mary Psalter, c 1310-1320 British Library. It’s common ... And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail.