“In the same five years three new colleges were founded at Cambridge – Trinity, Corpus Christi, and Clare – although love of learning, like love in marriage, was not always the motive. Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.”

“In the same five years three new colleges were founded at Cambridge – Trinity, Corpus Christi, and Clare – although love of learning, like love in marriage, was not always the motive. Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman