Idleness working
Subtitle: the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower
By: Gregory M. Sadlek.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230.; Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202.; André, le chapelain.; Gower, John, 1325?-1408.; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; 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.
Description: xii, 297 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The discourse of love's labor and its cultural contexts; title: Labor omnia vincit: Roman attitudes toward work and leisure and the discourse of love's labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria; title: Noble servitium: aspects of labor ideology in the Christian middle ages and love's labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus; title: Homo artifex: monastic labor ideologies, urban labor, and love's labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae; title: Repose travaillant: the discourse of love's labor in the Roman de la rose; title: The vice of Acedia and the gentil occupacion in Gower's Confessio amantis; title: Love's bysynesse in Chaucer's amatory fiction.