The audience howled. This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous helmets from the medieval ... State's GM Pete Hegseth’s disparagement of women soldiers factor into new test ...

In Hungary, a grave worthy of Katniss Everdeen – complete with a bow and an armor-piercing arrowhead – contains what just ...

When a medieval warrior had to use the toilet while ... find one of the nobles who was not saved by their fancy-pants armor. 6. Women Also Wore Armor. Admittedly, women in armor during the Middle ...

Mondays became dueling days for women in the hope that more would ... first encase your head completely in the heavy steel armor. Armored Medieval Combat is, essentially, for geeks with serious ...

“Are you ready for a medieval rumble ... Then you take off your helmet, and you’ve got little Black kids asking if they can be knights, too.” More women are suiting up, too.

For the great majority of human history, there was no doubt that women were to be understood as workers par excellance. Though this is true across history, the medieval period is a particularly ...

That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic. Previously known only ...

London CNN — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer ... Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 ...