If you have any awareness of sword-and-shield combat as a modern-day exercise, there’s a strong chance you’ve probably confused it with LARPing (live action role-playing). Medieval combat, however, is ...

The two circled one another; the silence from empty seats where the raucous crowd of spectators would sit made each’s clash of weapons louder. On one side stood Myrtle Beach’s Medieval Times Head ...

Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the aristocracy for most of Europe, far from popular films' hallowed heroism or comedic ...

A conversation on martial arts usually doesn’t invoke thoughts of Scotland, Germany and Italy, but a club in New Orleans with a focus on martial arts originating in Europe is changing that notion. The ...

Before you can start the nearly 300 hours of arduous training required to become a sword-fighting knight at Medieval Times, you must first pass a physical test wearing a heart monitor. “Usually the ...

A man using a metal detector has unearthed a medieval sword that might have served as a weapon during the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. Alexander Medvedev discovered the sword near Olsztyn, in northern ...

Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the aristocracy for most of Europe, far from popular films’ hallowed heroism or comedic ...