https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/7d5431fcbab631828882e3aff4ebf6c4.jpg 7302960de6e99e2bd142c8a428babb8a Place A location with a street address or larger region. Examples include building, statue, piazza, fountain, port, neighborhood, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, floors. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christ between Two Captives at San Tommasso in Formis Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.M. Hanley (2016) Description An account of the resource This unique mosaic is positioned over the entrance of San Tommaso in Formis, a small church located on the Caelian Hill, a hotbed of medieval-era ecclesiastical sites. The artwork is a legacy of San Tommaso’s Trinitarian heritage. After a dream of Jesus holding a black slave and a white slave, John of Matha founded the order and dedicated it to freeing and rehabilitating Christians held captive by Muslims – an issue particularly prominent in this era of crusades. Simultaneously, John felt the attraction of a monastic lifestyle and eventually retreated to a cloister adjacent to the order’s hospital at San Tommaso. John’s ecclesiastical career illustrates a tension, common in twelfth-century Christianity, between a desire to engage with the world and the traditional pursuit of piety in monastic isolation. The mosaic captures this tension. Christ is shown resolving a realistic human problem, one of whose subjects is African--indicative of the order’s trans-regional mission. However, the work is located over the gate in the walls of the monastic complex. The urge to separate the activities of a religious order from the world – even if they were engaged with the world – was still strong. As for the Cosmati mosaic itself, the scene should not necessarily be understood as an abstract meditation on racial egalitarianism. Among other activities, the Trinitarians purchased Afro-Italian slaves and exchanged them for captive Christians. The mosaic thus brings to mind the founding myth and the public activities of the order. A helpful analogy is a modern-day corporate logo. Abstract A summary of the resource. This unique mosaic is positioned over the entrance of San Tommaso in Formis, a small church located on the Caelian Hill, a hotbed of medieval-era ecclesiastical sites. The artwork is a legacy of San Tommaso’s Trinitarian heritage. After a dream of Jesus holding a black slave and a white slave, John of Matha founded the order and dedicated it to freeing and rehabilitating Christians held captive by Muslims – an issue particularly prominent in this era of crusades. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context santommassoformis_2015 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert Brentano, Rome Before Avignon: A Social History of Thirteenth Century Rome (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 14 Steven A. Epstein, Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), 194-195 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Via di S. Paolo della Croce, 00184 Roma RM Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1100s Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object neighborhoods