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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 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

Poverty --- Poverty (Virtue) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Alberto, --- Italy, Northern --- Northern Italy --- Church history. --- Wine industry --- Porters --- Peasants --- Railroad porters --- Redcaps --- Airports --- Hotels --- Railroads --- Alcoholic beverage industry --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Employees --- E-books --- Albertus Villaeoniensis --- 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.