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Idleness working : the discourse of love’s labor from Ovid through Chaucer

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Inspired by the critical theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages.

Author(s): Gregory M. Sadlek
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 313
City: Washington
Tags: medieval literature culture love in work Ovid Chaucer Gower Andreas Capellanus Alanus de Insulis Confessio Amantis

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 24
3. Noble Servitium: Aspects of Labor Ideology in the
Christian Middle Ages and Love’s Labor in the
De amore of Andreas Capellanus 55
4. Homo Artifex: Monastic Labor Ideologies, Urban
Labor, and Love’s Labor in Alan of Lille’s
De planctu naturae 90
5. Repos Travaillant: The Discourse of Love’s Labor
in the Roman de la rose 114
6. The Vice of Acedia and the Gentil Occupacioun in
Gower’s Confessio Amantis 167
7. Love’s Bysynesse in Chaucer’s Amatory Fiction 208
Conclusion 259
Bibliography 267
Subject Index 283
Index to Authors Cited 296