Idleness working [electronic resource] : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / Gregory M. Sadlek.
By: Sadlek, Gregory M.
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BookPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004Description: xii, 298 p.Subject(s): 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 | Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism | Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences | Love in literature | Work in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.933543 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes.
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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