Guild of Corpus Christi

The Guild of Corpus Christi was a common name for medieval religious guilds centering around the Feast of Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi procession.^[1]

Examples

• The Cambridge Guild of Corpus Christi, which became Corpus Christi College, Cambridge^[2]
• A London Corpus Christi guild founded in the Church of All Hallows, Bread Street became the Worshipful Company of Salters^[3]
• In medieval Ipswich the town's Gild Merchant after losing its monopoly transformed into a religious guild of Corpus Christi^[4]

References

1. MacCulloch 2009, p. 407.
2. Scarisbrick 1984, p. 21.
3. "400th Anniversary of the Charter". Retrieved 5 December 2025.
4. http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/mc2_pt4.html

Sources

• MacCulloch, Diarmaid (2009). A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-7139-9869-6.
• Scarisbrick, Jack Joseph (1984). The Reformation and the English People. Oxford: Blackwell.