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Contents Acknowledgments ix 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 . 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 vii ...

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