Indispensable immigrants

The wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Reference, History, Christianity
Cover of the book Indispensable immigrants by Lester Little, Manchester University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Lester Little ISBN: 9781526101778
Publisher: Manchester University Press Publication: November 1, 2015
Imprint: Manchester University Press Language: English
Author: Lester Little
ISBN: 9781526101778
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: November 1, 2015
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Language: English

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 why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make one of their own their patron saint in thirteenth-century Cremona and other interest groups scheme successfully to get him canonised in Rome five centuries later; and when enlightened despots abolish the guilds, the wine porters’ trade fades away just as the candles on their patron’s altars sputter and die out.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make one of their own their patron saint in thirteenth-century Cremona and other interest groups scheme successfully to get him canonised in Rome five centuries later; and when enlightened despots abolish the guilds, the wine porters’ trade fades away just as the candles on their patron’s altars sputter and die out.

More books from Manchester University Press

Cover of the book The Scots in early Stuart Ireland by Lester Little
Cover of the book Law in popular belief by Lester Little
Cover of the book Medicine, patients and the law by Lester Little
Cover of the book The British in Rural France by Lester Little
Cover of the book Christianity and democratisation by Lester Little
Cover of the book New Labour and the European Union by Lester Little
Cover of the book Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890 by Lester Little
Cover of the book Cinema, democracy and perfectionism by Lester Little
Cover of the book Windows for the world by Lester Little
Cover of the book The Labour Party and the world, volume 2 by Lester Little
Cover of the book The changing spaces of television acting by Lester Little
Cover of the book A History of the University of Manchester, 1973–90 by Lester Little
Cover of the book Evaluating parental power by Lester Little
Cover of the book Parliamentary reform at Westminster by Lester Little
Cover of the book Robert Southwell by Lester Little
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy