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 ...

The final medieval touch: a helmet hinged on each side of the head just above the ears and locking over the center of the chin. It stems directly from a 15th-Century Italian helmet called armet-a ...

Then, in the 2000s, programs to reinvigorate the town of Visegrád and its medieval castle were created. The most recent ...

What it tells us about the past: This helmet was discovered in pieces in an early-medieval ship burial at the archaeological site of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, in the late 1930s. On display ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous helmets from the medieval period. From the Great Helm to Sutton Hoo, Matt scores each helmet on protection ...