Venture back in time to the medieval and Renaissance periods — a time where knights reigned, battles were fought with swords, and artisans across Europe created stunning helmets and armor. That’s the ...
The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.
WORCESTER — He was known as “The Man of Steel,” and with good reason. John Woodman Higgins, who owned and ran the Worcester Processed Steel Company in the early decades of the 20th century, made it ...
Even in New York, a city where pretty much anything goes, the sight and sound of knights in shining armour swinging swords at each other still draws a crowd. “Are you ready for a medieval rumble?” ...
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 wearing ...
We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this ...
Beneath the towering concrete trunks of the Rockridge BART station in Oakland, Pleasanton resident Dr. Robert Holland dons chain mail and plated armor as he takes up his alter-ego, Prince of the Mists ...
To find yourself in the helmet and armor of a true medieval knight for close-to-true, steel-on-steel combat is an unmatched sensation, say some of Colorado’s bravest and mightiest heroes. You might ...