Medieval armor has a bad reputation when it comes ... the Swiss researchers recreated the training regimen of a famous French medieval knight named Jean le Maingre, a.k.a. Boucicaut, who racked ...

In 1415, heavily armored French knights advanced across a muddy ... who were accustomed to wearing their own sets of replica 15th-century armor. Each man agreed to walk and run on a treadmill ...

But now with the help of volunteers wearing replica medieval armour - and a treadmill - they ... despite heavily outnumbering the English - the French were beaten.

provides the first experimental evidence of how Medieval armour hampered a knight’s performance. Despite significantly outnumbering the English army, the French were easily defeated by King ...

Scientists monitored volunteers fitted with 15th Century replica armour as they walked ... In this famous Anglo-French conflict of 1415, French knights were defeated by their English counterparts ...