ABSTRACT
This chapter will look first at the English city of Norwich, examining the interplay between the city corporation and the Saint George Guild. The representations of Saint George within the city and its environs will be investigated to analyse how images of the saint contextualised and enabled corporate unity. The chapter then narrows its focus to look at the images of Saint George commissioned by the Guild and the spaces used by it around the city. Narrowing down even further, the discussion will focus on the unifying effect of the Guild procession in the annual feast of Saint George in Norwich. The second case study will look at the Italian city of Venice and its connections with the immigrant Schiavoni Confraternity of San Giorgio. Again, city-wide images will be considered in the first section, narrowing down in the second part to works commissioned by the confraternity itself. The Schiavoni were very different in their approach to their use of the fabric of the city in their George-centric devotional practice. Finally, the specific event of the translation of Saint George's relic to the Scuola degli Schiavoni in Venice will be considered, addressing the issues of unity and exclusion.
