That’s what attracted Road’s End Films, based in Portland, Ore., which used medieval props created by Lord of Battles on its production of Runestone, a film about Vikings in ninth-century ...

This leads him to believe that the shroud was mostly likely just a prop used in medieval Easter rituals. He believed it was used in a ceremony called the ‘Quem Quaeritis?’ or ‘whom do you ...

The medieval props were punctuated by the occasional, anachronistic item, like a red riding jacket being steamed next to the stallion and a stuffed black panther clutching a giant red rose.

While Narnia, Lord of the Rings and Shrek, in their very diverse ways, all handsomely stock their plots with medieval props such as castles, queens and knights, even Harry Potter and the recently ...

The charity English Heritage suggests keeping your decorations up until February. It says that our medieval ancestors would leave them in place until the feast of Candlemas. Falling exactly 40 ...