A medieval knight re-enactor was stabbed in the face during a mock battle outside a historic English castle – a freak ...

Here is a glimpse of what’s opening in July: tributes to classic hi-NRG disco, a throwback LAN Party and the "Knights of the ...

Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons fill the Getty Center’s galleries this summer. A new exhibition ...

From that original caricature, snails and knights became a trope in medieval marginal art. As the video shows, medieval marginal art was an unusual playground for surreal and fantastic drawings.

The Green Knight bills itself as an "epic fantasy adventure" which calls to mind some specific tropes--monsters, for one, and big fight scenes. Real Lord of the Rings stuff, which is actually ...

Step beyond the myths and legends to uncover the real life of a medieval knight - from grueling combat training and chivalric codes to the hierarchical pressures of feudal society. This deep dive ...

Snails wielding swords and fighting off knights. Elephants that look like oversized golden retrievers. Dogs with uncanny proportions and hauntingly human eyes. Cats wearing clothes and playing ...

The knight pulls his arm back, poised to strike. He's dressed in the typical armour of the 14th Century, with a chainmail suit, belted tunic and bucket-style helmet.

If you've never seen an animal in real life, don't say you can draw said animal. It would seem that you were not a true medieval knight, unless you had a spider horse as a trusted companion. At least ...

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 ...

He was to be an ornament in his lord’s court: affable and restrained, eloquent, and skilled in music, the hunt and the art of courtly flirting. Prowess remained, however, a knight's central quality.

The one note David Lowery kept giving his composer, Daniel Hart, was: “Be weirder.” Lowery’s film was already as weird as its source, the 14th century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...