"Otium," "Negotium," and the Fear of "Acedia" in the Writings of England's Late Medieval Ricardian Poets.
- Author / Editor
- Sadlek, Gregory M.
"Otium," "Negotium," and the Fear of "Acedia" in the Writings of England's Late Medieval Ricardian Poets.
- Published
- Monika Fludernik and Miriam Nandi, eds. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17-39.
- Description
- Offers background to late-medieval English literary notion of "otium" (idleness) and explores tensions between leisure and productivity in works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the "Gawain" poet, particularly their representations of the morality of leisure and labor in aristocratic love (treating LGWP and TC) and in the daily lives of clerics and seculars (treating GP and SNP).
- Contributor
- Fludernik, Monika, ed.
Nandi, Miriam, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Second Nun and Her Tale