At 10.75 by 2.4 meters, it is currently the largest surviving seventeenth-century wall tapestry and is still displayed in the town hall of Haarlem. The work was so popular that Cornelius was commissioned to produce drawings for a tapestry depicting the same legend. The painting also alludes to the importance of the multiple crusades – Iberian, anti-heretical, Baltic, and anti-schismatic – which intersected with the Holy Land crusade tradition and the preparations, arrivals, and departures for various fronts which shaped the lives of so many individuals who participated in person and supported various crusades on the ‘home front’. The Fourth Lateran Council was crucial to the planning and preparations for the Fifth Crusade, including the departure dates and places set for crusading fleets and the council’s ban on certain forms of sea trade with Muslim powers. The painting commemorates the local legend that it was a ship from Haarlem which broke the chain which barred the ships of the Fifth Crusade from progressing up the Nile river towards Damietta. A specialist in paintings of ships and sea battles working during the Dutch Golden Age, Cornelis was one of many artists commissioned by the city council of Haarlem to rewrite the city’s history in painting at a moment when Protestants were prominent in the city government. With the kind permission of the Frans Hals Museum. 1575-1633), De verovering van Damiate (The Capture of Damietta), oil on canvas, c. SmithĬover illustration: Cornelis Claesz Van Wieringen (c. The Fourth Lateran Council and the Crusade Movement The Impact of the Council of 1215 on Latin Christendom and the EastĮdited by Jessalynn L. Graham Loud (University of Leeds) Dr Christoph Maier (University of Zürich) Prof.
Peter Lock (York St John University) Prof. Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) Prof.
Nikolas Jaspert (University of Heidelberg) Prof. Jochen Burgtorf (California State University, Fullerton) Prof. Alfred Andrea (University of Vermont) Prof. Murray (University of Leeds) Editorial Board Prof.
Outremer Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East The Fourth Lateran Council and the Crusade Movement
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