Knights weren’t always clad in heavy plate armor. From the Norman conquests to the wars of the late Middle Ages, this video explores how knights evolved their armor and weapons in response to changing ...

Secrets of the Shining Knight. Season 44 Episode 13 | 53m 30s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Discover the world of medieval knights and see how their armor was made. Aired 09/20/2017 | Expired 04 ...

One historical theme to be gleaned from the Bowers Museum’s new exhibit, “Knights in Armor,” is the 17th century invention that led to the downfall of armor and its accompanying weaponry as ...

Head to the Frist Art Museum’s upper-level galleries, and you’ll come face-to-face with a 500-year-old knight in shining armor.. OK, so it’s not an actual knight. The armor, however, is the ...

Rather, while suits of armor did add extra weight, research by medievalist Daniel Jaquet at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science shows that some knights were downright spry in their ...