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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480900703321

Autore

Little Lester K

Titolo

Indispensable immigrants : The wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800 / / Lester K. Little

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©2015

ISBN

1-5261-0176-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

261.8325

Soggetti

Poverty - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Italy, Northern Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Prologue: The setting, the main characters, and two questions; I Alberto; 1 The legend of Saint Alberto; 2 The life of Alberto; 3 The afterlife of Alberto; II The wine porters; 4 The brenta and the brentatori; 5 Topography and migration; 6 Porters of the imagination; III Sainthood; 7 Making saints; 8 Sainthood by community; 9 Sainthood by the papacy; Epilogue: Dignity and memory; Appendix: Sources and studies pertaining to brentatori; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first-ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain w