03225oam 22007574a 450 991081618190332120190411161316.01-5261-1669-31-5261-0176-910.7765/9781526101761(CKB)3710000000529336(EBL)4706218(MiAaPQ)EBC4706218(OCoLC)964878353(MdBmJHUP)muse59579(DE-B1597)659132(DE-B1597)9781526101761(EXLCZ)99371000000052933620150530d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierIndispensable immigrantsThe wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800 /Lester K. LittleManchester :Manchester University Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2015.1 online resource (242 p.)Includes index.1-5261-0177-7 0-7190-9522-0 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; IndexIndispensable 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 wPovertyReligious aspectsChristianityItaly, NorthernChurch historyElectronic books. Cremona.Fernand Braudel.Northern Italy.Parma.Piacenza.Reggio Emilia.Saint Alberto.Saint-Mattia.Teofilo Folengo.bishops.brenta.brentatore.community.indispensable immigrants.papacy.patron saint.peasants.popes.sainthood.wine porters.PovertyReligious aspectsChristianity.261.8325Little Lester K134112MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910816181903321Indispensable immigrants3956335UNINA