1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797718303321

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

1-5261-1669-3

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963890603321

Autore

Rosen Stanley <1929->

Titolo

Plato's Republic : a study / / Stanley Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786611730314

9781281730312

1281730319

9780300129502

0300129505

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Disciplina

321/.07

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-403) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cephalus and Polemarchus -- Thrasymachus -- Glaucon and Adeimantus -- Paideia I: the luxurious city -- Paideia II: the purged city -- Justice -- The female drama -- Possibility -- The philosophical nature -- The good, the divided line, and the cave: the education of the philosopher -- Political decay -- Happiness and pleasure -- The quarrel between philosophy and poetry -- The immortal soul.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author's intention in composing it, in particular whether Plato believed that the city constructed in the Republic is possible and desirable.Rosen demonstrates that the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive but that the attempt to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster. The Republic, says Rosen, is a vivid illustration of the irreconcilability of philosophy and political practice.