A knight in "shining armor" wielding a sword or lance is an iconic medieval image ... according to The Metropolitan Museum of ...

NEW YORK — Even in a city where pretty much anything goes, the sight and sound of knights in shining armor swinging swords at each other still draws a crowd. “Are you ready for a medieval ...

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?” ...

With more than 90 works on view, the first major U.S. retrospective of this Art Deco siren celebrates ... and rider welcoming patrons into "Knights in Shining Armor." "A group of school kids ...

The medieval knights of the Middle Ages were some of the fittest and strongest warriors of their time, which comes as no surprise given that they wielded swords and sprinted in armour weighing ...

The knight pulls his arm back, poised to strike. He's dressed in the typical armour of ... a lot of different medieval images," says Marian Bleeke, a professor of medieval art at the University ...

The glittering armor worn by medieval European knights was originally made to protect ... According to an essay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, plate armor was first used in Europe in the ...

Knights and firearms clashed on the battlefield for over 200 years. A select few suits of armor were crafted with secret techniques that made them stronger than others, possibly even bulletproof.

But even if knights' encounters with firearms were uncommon, medieval armor may have offered some protection against a bullet. "The Late Medieval-Early Modern Era, from around 1380 to about 1600 ...