Michael Foster

• Monday - Thursday Daytime (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
• Friday Anytime (8 a.m. - 11 p.m.)
• Saturday - Sunday Anytime (8 a.m. - 11 p.m.)

• Guild Master Emeritus, Guild of St. Michael, Inc., 2007-date
• President, Board of Directors, Guild of St. Michael, Inc., 2005-2007
• Director/Guild Master, Guild of St. Michael, 1994-2005
• Assistant Guild Master, Guild of St. Michael, 1993
• Participant, California Renaissance Pleasure Faires, 1990-1992

Renaissance and
Medieval Medicine

Russians in
America's Past

• Master Surgeon, 1997-date
  • William Clowes
• Barber-Surgeon, 1990-1996
  • Magnus Maxwell
• English Soldier, 1989-1990
  • Magnus Maxwell
• Medieval Lord, 1985-1989
  • Maxwell Magnus

• Promyshlennik ("adventurer, hunter, trader"), 2004-date
  
  
  • Timofei Tarakanov, 18C-19C
    
    
  • Alexi Stroganoff, 16C-18C

• Practice of Surgery, 1500s
• History of Medicine, Medieval and Renaissance
• Surgical Tools
• Life of an Apprentice/Journeyman Barber-Surgeon
• Life as a Journeyman Barber-Surgeon in the Military

• Exploration of Siberia, Alaska, Hawaii and California
• History of Russian Eastward Movement
• Fur Trapping, Trading
• Life in Russian-American Colonies
• Russians in California

• Lectures: 30-45 minutes on various aspects of medical practices (large audience)
• Workshop: 15-30 minutes on specific aspects of medical practices (small audience)
• Demos: 5-15 minutes on separate aspects of medical practices (transitory audience)

• Lectures: 30-45 minutes on various aspects of the History of Siberia and Russian-America (large audience)
• Workshop: 15-30 minutes on specific aspects of Russian-American colonies (small audience)
• Demos: 5-15 minutes on separate aspects of Russian-American fur trading(transitory audience)

• Staff of the Serpent, Medical Practicioners Living History
• St. Michael's Guild-South, English Military
• Past Times with Good Company, English Middle Class
• Renaissance Military Society, English & German Military
• Society for Creative Anachronism, English Middle Class
• St. Michael's Guild-North, English Military
• Blackshire's Company of the Sword, English Militia & Middle Class
• Falcons Court/Workshops in the Woods, English Upper & Middle Class

• Western History Association (WHA)
• Association for Living Hisory, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)

• Walking Through History: A Short History of Shoes, 2010
• Archetypal Archangel and Archer: Actions, Apparitions and Angelic Assignments of Saint Michael, 2009
• Thy Rules for Thine Edification: A Guide to Using Thee, Thy and Thine, 2008
• Surgery in the Middle Ages: Trepanning, 2005
• Barber-Surgeon Songe Boke: In Ursa Minor, 2005. Beeynge a colecyon of sawnge, storie and poetree werkes
• Barber-Surgeon Hand Boke: No lava las manos, 1995. Beeynge a colecyon of rooles, gyde lines and fore cawtions
• "Eviles of Smoke", 1994
• Barber-Surgeon Werke Boke: Vine, vide, venesecyon, 1994. Beeynge a colecyon of bluds, byles and bones
• "12 Steps to Recovery from Faire Addiction", 1990

• List of Fur for Trade (trans.), 2006
• Trapper Contract, 2006
• List of Fur for Trade (annotated), 2005
• Types and History of Otters, 2005
• Otter Hunting Facts, 2005
• Early California European Alphabets, 2004
• Contemporary Images of Ft. Ross, California, 2004
• Map of Russian America, 2004

• Colorado Renaissance Festival
• Crossroads Renaissance Festivals (Calif)
• Estrella War
• Fair Oaks Renaissance Festival
• Kansas City Renaissance Festival
• Hanford Renaissance of Kings
• Long Beach Renaissance Arts Festival
• Los Angeles Irish Fair
• Pennsic War
• San Luis Obispo Renaissance Fair
• San Marcos Renaissance Festival
• Santa Barbara Renaissance Festival