Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers' locomotor performance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0816; ...

Watching a movie set in medieval times isn’t enough to realize just how damn heavy those suits of steel actually are. Weighing between 30 – 50kg, you’d think they would impact and impede the ...

Medieval knights COULD move with all that armour: Scientists find they had full range of motion and load was comparable to that carried by a modern soldier Researchers recreated training tasks of ...

Medieval armor certainly looks heavy. ... The researchers say that the tight, metal shell may have made the soldiers feel safer. But being weighted down probably made it a long day for a knight.

Russia is not the first country that comes to mind when one thinks of high-quality armor – thoughts instinctively turn to the great smiths of Western Europe’s medieval kingdoms. Yet Russian ...

Medieval suits of armour were so exhausting to wear that they could have affected the outcomes of famous battles, a study suggests. ... covering the soldier from head to toe.