Welcome to the Company of Saynt George website

The Company of Saynt George is a living-history association. For almost twenty years we have been bringing to life a small artillery company dating back to the period of Charles the Bold (1467-1477). These pages contain information about our group including many pictures of previous events, numerous research articles and how to get involved. Furthermore, you can access the public mailing list.

Any comments and feedback is greatly appreciated. Please contact us via contact@companie-of-st-george.ch.

 

 

News from the Company Blog

Events 2012

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.


Malešov, Lenzburg and Vallerois le Blois

Axing IMAREAL

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)

A Medieval Mass in Basle

This is a guest piece by Steven Rudin.

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.

Reproduction of a Leg Harness

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.

Back from Nykøbing, Looking Forward to Chillon

The Company has spent a great week in the Danish Medieval Center in Nykøbing Falster. We had set up our tents and occupied the port city during the last week of July and put up a display focussing on artillery and a carpenter's workshop building moveable walls from wood as means of protection.

Here is a view of the port city on one of the sunnier days. Note the tents on the left: this was the small camp of our artillerists who stayed next to their guns; set up to protect the entry into the port.


Haut-Koenigsbourg, France, April 1 - April 3, 2005