A special shield to complete your medieval knight costume.

Measuring 24 inches high by 17.5 inches wide, this wonderful testament to medieval warfare is a great conversation piece.  Bound with brass and bearing a symbolic red cross, this kite shield comes ready to be hung in any armory.  Shields come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and were used throughout the centuries for defense.   A shield of this type would have been used by only the wealthiest of knights, due to its brass bindings and ornate decoration.

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Are you looking for more than just a medieval knight costume?  Learn all about real medieval knights, their world and their weaponry and clothing.

1381: The Peel Affinity builds a portrait of a world long lost, using gorgeous photographs filled with carefully researched and reconstructed clothing, tools, armor, furnishings, and other items, all based closely on surviving artifacts, manuscript illustrations, and paintings. The text draws extensive details from historical accounts, records, chronicles, and literature, as well as modern historical and archaeological research. All this potentially dull and dusty detail is brou (more…)

Learn the lost art of chivalry to go along with  your medieval knight costume.

The Middle Ages, with its crude reality and mystery, often enveloped in an air of religious and occasionally even mythical or fantastic mysticism, has always been one of the preferred themes of historians and history lovers in general. Since the end of the Roman Empire, with its manipulative tactics in which the infantry was the deciding factor in battles, the cavalry became the main player on the battlefields all over Europe, replacing other forms of weaponry and becoming impor (more…)