Idleness working the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower /

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Main Author:	Sadlek, Gregory M., 1950-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004.
Subjects:	Chaucer, Geoffrey, > d. 1400 > Criticism and interpretation. Guillaume, > de Lorris, > fl. 1230. > Roman de la rose. Alanus, > de Insulis, > d. 1202. > De planctu naturae. André, > le chapelain. > De amore et amoris remedio. Gower, John, > 1325?-1408. > Confessio amantis. Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Ars amatoria. Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Influence. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Literature, Medieval > Roman influences. Love in literature. Work in literature. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The discourse of love's labor and its cultural contexts
Labor omnia vincit: Roman attitudes toward work and leisure and the discourse of love's labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria
Noble servitium: aspects of labor ideology in the Christian middle ages and love's labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus
Homo artifex: monastic labor ideologies, urban labor, and love's labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae
Repose travaillant: the discourse of love's labor in the Roman de la rose
The vice of Acedia and the gentil occupacion in Gower's Confessio amantis
Love's bysynesse in Chaucer's amatory fiction.

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