Corpus Christi College
Medieval college founded by town guilds, with the oldest planned closed quadrangle in its university.
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This guide to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge follows the townspeople behind it, two local guilds who pooled their money in the fourteenth century and cleared their own houses to build it. It reaches into the summer of the Peasants' Revolt, when an old woman's shout rang over the Market Square. Along the way you'll hear what candle rents were and who paid them. Best heard standing in Old Court.
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