Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Discourse of Love's Labor and Its Cultural Contexts -- 2. Labor Omnia Vincit: Roman Attitudes toward Work and Leisure and the Discourse of Love's Labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria -- 3. Noble Servitium: Aspects of Labor Ideology in the Christian Middle Ages and Love's Labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus -- 4. Homo Artifex: Monastic Labor Ideologies, Urban Labor, and Love's Labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae -- 5. Repos Travaillant: The Discourse of Love's Labor in the Roman de la rose -- 6. The Vice of Acedia and the Gentil Occupacioun in Gower's Confessio Amantis -- 7. Love's Bysynesse in Chaucer's Amatory Fiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index to Authors Cited.