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The centuries-old complete skeleton of a medieval knight was found under the former site of a famous ice cream shop in Poland, researchers said. The discovery was made on a small plot in Gdańsk, a ...
The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...
QUESTION Did the 14th-century French knight Jean Le Maingre publish an exercise regimen? In medieval warfare, a man-at-arms had to be in excellent physical condition.
HanWay is taking the film — about an 14th century knight who vows to rescue a woman from a haunted forest — to the European Film Market. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Set in England in ...
Usually made out of iron, these metal gloves, which were used to protect a person's hands and wrists, were invented in the early 14th century, when European soldiers and knights upgraded from ...
Millions choose a career in which their only responsibility is to kill or be killed – much like many of the men of 14th Century Europe. Their lords, the knights of Europe, prided themselves on ...
A miniature from the 14th-century Chronicle of Bernard Gui portrays the torture of the d’Aunay brothers. Bridgeman/ACI In ordering the living bodies of the adulterous knights to be skinned ...
About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...
An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for ...