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