Contents
Acknowledgements iv.
1. The Discourse of Love's Labor and Its Cultural Contexts 1
2. Labor Omnia Vincit: Roman Attitudes toward Work
and Leisure and the Discourse of Love's Labor
in Ovid's Ars amatoria 38
3. Noble Servitium: Aspects of Labor Ideology in the Christian
Middle Ages and Love's Labor in the De amore
of Andreas Capellanus 87
4. Homo Artifex: Monastic Labor Ideologies, Urban Labor,
and Love's Labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae 141
5. Repose Travaillant: The Discourse of Love's Labor in
the Roman de la Rose 180
6. The Vice of Acedia and the Gentil Occupacion in Gower's
Confessio Amantis 266
7. Love's Bysinesse in Chaucer's Amatory Fiction 334
Conclusion 416
Bibliography 428
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Literature, Medieval History and criticism, Literature, Medieval Roman influences, Love in literature, Work in literature, Chaucer, Geoffrey, d, 1400 Criticism and interpretation, Guillaume, de Lorris, fl, 1230, Roman de la Rose, Alanus, de Insulis, d, 1202, De planctu naturae, Andr�e, 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