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Raymond Peraudi in Zerbst: Corpus Christi Theater, Material Devotion, and the Indulgence Microeconomy on the Eve of the Reformation

For some eighteen hours during his final papal indulgence campaign in northern Europe, cardinal andpapal legateRaymond Peraudi (1435–1505) sojourned in the central German town of Zerbst. Although the city was merely an overnight station on the legate’s route between Wittenberg and Magdeburg, Peraudi’s visit from 19 to 20 January 1503was tohave long-lasting consequences for devotional piety inZerbst and the surrounding region. As was his wont in other cities along his path, Peraudi marked the occasion by issuing an indulgence upon his own authority as cardinal for attendance at a local procession, in this case the Zerbster Fronleichnamsspiel, the city’s annual processional Corpus Christi play, known throughout the region for its costly tableaux vivants from theOld andNewTestaments. In the remaining years before the Protestant Reformation—particularly after 1506, when a cataclysmic fire destroyed nearly half the city—Peraudi’s play indulgence fostered the incorporation of papal indulgence ritual in the local CorpusChristi festival, provided an annual revenue stream for the town, and helped to generate a larger complex of performance materials that provide incomparable insights into the role of indulgenced spectatorship in late medieval piety. The Zerbst sources, presumed lost after Allied bombing of the town in 1945 and only recently rediscovered, reveal in unprecedented detail the monetary power ofmaterial objects of devotion and their role in the latemedieval indulgence economy.