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 ...

Epic tales, poems of praise, and fantastic legends swirled around famous knights in the Middle Ages. Their bravery in battle and tournament victories inspired incredible accounts of both fact and ...

It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th- and 14th-century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval readers. And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave ...