St Crispin's is a medieval recreation group based at the University of Newcastle, Australia. We are part of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) a worldwide medieval We fight, make medieval clothing, armour, chainmail... group. The SCA is a group that likes to relive life as it was in medieval times (with a few modern amenities thrown in for good measure, for example dome tents, port-a-loos and utes to transport our stuff). We fight, make medieval clothing, armour, chainmail, belts, earthenware and fun things like forts and trebuchets. We also get into calligraphy and illumination, embroidery, brewing, writing, story telling, singing, dancing, leatherwork, feasting, wenching, acting and saying "waa gibber gibber" a lot.
St Crispin's local groups is the Shire of Mordenvale, also based in Newcastle.
This year's college members are all under 25 and university students (with a couple of exceptions). We have our own fighting lance, dance troupe, drinking team, magazine and sewing mafia. Crispies try to have as much fun in the Current Middle Ages as possible, while still somehow managing to pass their courses. Mostly we manage both.
To find out more about things like grogs and A-n-S and our history and read some funny stuff and see interesting pictures and find out about our strange and yet wonderful exploits see the links above and come and join us!
Thank you to Rainfreda for the information on this page.
Copyright© Melissa Hadley July 2005.