Despite its anatomical look, the hilt likely helped to batter an opponent's armor during combat. Nearly eight years of excavation work at a medieval fortress in Gothenburg, Sweden has yielded a number ...
Dressed from head-to-toe in knight's armour, fighters thrashed each other with steel swords in high-octane duels at a Serbian chivalry festival on Saturday. These were not staged re-enactment shows ...
MONROE, Wash. (AP) - When Sean McMillan was 15, he witnessed a medieval-style fighting demonstration at his school, Snohomish High. Though the combatants used safe weapons made of rattan, plastic, ...
Armour-clad ‘knights’ have attacked each other with swords at a medieval-style event aimed at boosting ‘the uncompromising fight against violence on women, children and weaklings’. Men from across ...
This week the month-long Yorkshire Medieval Festival turns its attention to early combat methods. As MATT CLARK discovers, they are surprisingly familiar. MARTIAL arts conjures visions of little ...
Around 60 fighters from European countries spanning France to Romania participated in the tournament, wielding blunted weapons as they skirmished across a grassy pitch in the shadow of a 15th century ...
Dressed from head-to-toe in knight's armour, fighters thrashed each other with steel swords in high-octane duels at a Serbian chivalry festival on Saturday. These were not staged re-enactment shows ...