MONA, Juab County — While some may see a renaissance fair as just nerds playing dress up, others find it to be a great way to escape from modern day life, connect with others and learn about history.

This year at the Texas Renaissance Festival, listen for the sound of blaring trumpets and beating drums: It signals the start of a show of the Middle Ages’ premiere sport. Four times a day, knights ...

Montana's own knight in shining stirrups will make his television debut on March 19 on the Discovery Channel. Daniel Wirth, whose family owns the Rocking Z ranch just north of Helena on Sieben Flats, ...

Raven Eastwood used to compete in rodeos in high school. But now when he rides a horse, he puts on 70 pounds of armor and gallops with a lance toward an opponent in the medieval sport called jousting.

Only the most fearless of medieval knights dared to participate in heavy-hitting jousting tournaments. Riders wearing 50 pounds of metal armor were athletes with superior strength, stamina and courage ...