Indispensable immigrants : the wine porters of northern Italy and their saint, 1200-1800 /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Little, Lester K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Alberto, > di Villa d'Ogna, Saint, > approximately 1214-1279.
Alberto, > di Villa d'Ogna, Saint, > -1279.
Wine industry > Italy, Northern > History.
Porters > Italy, Northern > History.
Peasants > Italy, Northern > History.
Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Vin > Industrie > Italie (Nord) > Histoire.
Porteurs de bagages > Italie (Nord) > Histoire.
Pauvreté > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
HISTORY / Social History.
Peasants
Porters
Poverty > Religious aspects > Christianity
Wine industry
Italy, Northern > Church history.
Italie (Nord) > Histoire religieuse.
Northern Italy
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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