A knight in "shining armor" wielding a sword or lance is an iconic medieval image, but more advanced weapons also appeared in the Middle Ages — including guns that fired bullets.

Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, looks at medieval weapons and armor scenes from movies such as "The Lord of the Rings" and rates them based on ...

the sword’s design is similar to “hand-and-a-half” weapons that were popular in Western Europe during the Late Middle Ages, and were crafted to stab through armor. The publication cited ...