Finding a Knight in Shining Armor. Michael Kernan. October 1999. ... You could do handstands in that steel carapace, he says, and the stories of knights bogging down in their armor are exaggerated.

Josh Davis, who just graduated from Augsburg College, built a 75-pound suit of armor to illustrate his senior thesis in medieval studies. “I can fall down and get back up in less than a second ...

Head to the Frist Art Museum’s upper-level galleries, and you’ll come face-to-face with a 500-year-old knight in shining armor.. OK, so it’s not an actual knight. The armor, however, is the ...