One could argue that a military company, and even a dashing burgundian company, wouldn't roam the land with benches and stools stored among its bombards, ammunition and other warlike tools. It is also true that artillery inventories don't mention many of them. Yes! but It is however well known that soldiers are prone to "borrow" to local inhabitants whatever they need… and, besides, the company settles in castles and towns 4 times out of 5.
The Swiss Coop Journal published an article about the Company of St. George in the latest issue. They had prepared the article after our Chillon event and today it finally appeared. The journal was delivered in print into more than 1 Million Swiss households.
The Clarence Household would like to announce that it is running a 7 day event in England this July and would be interested to hear from any Company members, guests or associated individuals who might like to come to the event and take part.
Afaktor is a German magazine for reenactors of different periods. They have archeological articles, reports of several events and they also present different groups.
In the latest issue, they published a portrait of the Company of St. George. Have a look!
A late medieval artefact discovered by the Archaeological Department of Canton Zug
This season the Museum Burg Zug will delve into the Middle Ages. This was prompted by the discovery of a sword at the bottom of the lake by members of the Archaeological Department of Canton Zug during an underwater dive in Oberwil. After its restoration in the Swiss National Museum the weapon will be on display at the Burg Zug.
To start the year off, we present you the Company events of 2012. We are kicking off the season with a small private event in France followed by a visit to a Swiss castle in July. We will wrap up the year in September with our first ever trip to the Czech Republic.
Imareal is a wonderful site for the research of medieval paintings and many other topics covered in a set of online databases. This is all supported by the "Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit" in Krems, Austria. This institute is the home of over a dozen people financed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The said Austrian Academy is about to lose a big part of its money and thinks about killing 300 - 450 full time jobs including the ones in Krems. There is an online petition attempting to prevent this desaster with over 13000 signatures as of this writing.
Krems on the Danube River, Austria, is the home of IMAREAL (photo: wikipedia)
First of all, my thanks to the Company of St. George for offering me to write a blog here as a guest. I follow the blogs here quite often; it is interesting to see, what keeps other groups busy. As it has been discussed earlier, reenacting religion is not an easy topic. For our group it has become an important part of our routine. More and more members wear a rosary and we say a grace before every important meal. This easily leads the way to the idea of having some kind of medieval Christmas Mass instead of some modern Christmas Party for the group.
Reproducing an existing harness as seen on display in a museum is no guarantee of it's "historical consistency". Many complete harnesses found in European museums are combinations of pieces originating not only from different workshops but sometimes from different countries or different periods. The origin of some specimens is rather tricky to define precisely if the makers marks is absent or hasn't yet been identified.
