Knights, nobles, wenches, and jesters are just some of the characters you can find at the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival. The event held at the Castle of Muskogee serves as a gateway to another world. ...

When the castle doors opened on a recent morning, hundreds of guests flooded into the Ohio Renaissance Festival — many of them in detailed period costumes, just like the performers. Among them were ...

An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn’t exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year’s Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the ...

As renaissance festivals have risen in popularity, they have long since given up any pretension at historical accuracy — if they ever did strive for such. Ren fests have instead become an amalgam of ...