Romance of Flamenca

Flamenca (Occitan pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋka]) is a 13th-century anonymous romance, written in the Occitan language in Occitania.

Most literary allusions in the text are from Old French sources.

The author

A certain Sir Bernardet may have been the author, however the Bernardet mentioned may simply be the fictional narrator. Nothing is known for certain about the author; however, a number of things may be inferred from the circumstances of the text itself. The author was probably not a minstrel, but rather a cleric, most likely in the service of the Roquefeuil family at the court of Alga, and may have written the romance at the Benedictine monastery at Nant, Aveyron, and was erudite and may have even studied at the University of Paris. The author was probably a native of Rouergue, based on linguistic similarities in the language used in the romance and that of the region.

In popular culture

Spanish singer Rosalía based her 2018 album El mal querer on Flamenca. Every song was named after a chapter from the book.^[1]

References

^ Linés, Esteban. Rosalía: 'Ni yo ni mi música hemos cambiado' (In Spanish). La Vanguardia. Retrieved 31 October 2018

Lavaud, René; Nelli, René, eds. (1960), Les Troubadours: Jaufre, Flamenca, Barlaam et Josephat, Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer
Blodgett, E.D. (1995). The Romance of Flamenca. UK: Routledge. ISBN 0-8240-5169-6.
Zufferey and Fasseur, edited and translated by (2014). Flamenca. FRA: Le Livre de Poche Lettres Gothiques. ISBN 978-2-253-08256-9. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)

External links

Le Roman de Flamenca corpus (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Bradley, William Aspenwall, The story of Flamenca: the first modern novel, arranged from the Provençal original of the thirteenth century, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1922.

[1] Linés, Esteban. Rosalía: 'Ni yo ni mi música hemos cambiado' (In Spanish). La Vanguardia. Retrieved 31 October 2018

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