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The scene is no scripted historical reenactment, though it takes place just outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the centuries of metal suits on display there.

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But Oxford’s rambunctious youth made for a dangerous scene. By the early 14th century, Oxford had a population of roughly 7,000 inhabitants, with about 1,500 students.

Players ready their battle plan during a medieval armored combat event in New York's Central Park. Theirs is a burgeoning sport in the United States and around the world.

No one knows how medieval knights really fought. With crowds watching from the muddy banks of the River Thames, the accusing relative – also a knight – attacked with "hard and frequent blows".

An exhibition in Oslo considers how artists like Edvard Munch and Käthe Kollwitz embraced the expressive potential of medieval art. Marianne Stokes, Death and the Maiden (1908).