Sadlek, Gregory M.. Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower

Folger bibliographic ID: 188069
Folger call number: PN682.L68 S24 2004
Folger holdings ID: 226321

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes

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

Item information about Folger PN682.L68 S24 2004

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Extended title: Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / Gregory M. Sadlek

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis Literature, Medieval Love in literature Work in literature Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose Alanus, de Insulis, -1202. De planctu naturae Andreas, Capellanus. De amore et amoris remedio Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D

author: Sadlek, Gregory M., 1950-
subject: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
subject: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D