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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Lester K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine industry--Italy, Northern--History.

Wine industry.

Immigrants--Italy--History.

Immigrants.

Peasants--Italy--History.

Peasants.

Christian patron saints--Italy--History.

Christian patron saints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 8, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526116697

1526116693

9781526101761

1526101769

OCLC:

964878353