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The University of Murcia has already published and released the second edition of 'El Román de Flamenca', the text of the 13th century in which the album 'El mal querer' by the singer Rosalía is inspired.
It is a medieval romance originally written in the Occitan language and whose only translation into Spanish is that made by the writer Jaime Covarsí, who dedicated his doctoral thesis to this text almost unknown until the 19th century.
The news that Rosalia had inspired her musical work in the history of this romance made the book run out.
The University announced at the beginning of the year a second edition that can already be purchased through the website of Editum, the publisher of the institution, at a price of 17 euros.
'El román de Flamenca' tells the story of Flamenca, a fiery woman whose beauty is used to arrange a marriage with the lord of Archimbaut, a powerful knight, so that her father, the Count of Nemours, will win an advantageous alliance.
The admiration that Flamenca's beauty provokes awakens a deep state of jealousy in the gentleman, who encloses her in a tower and subjects her to psychological abuse and a situation of domination from which she manages to get rid with her wit and the complicity of her lover , Guillem de Nevers.
It is a song of female freedom and against misunderstood love and jealousy.
All the songs on Rosalía's album are a journey through the motifs that are reflected throughout 'El román de Flamenca'.
The songs are conceived as chapters in the life of a woman who faces the submission of her husband: omen, wedding, jealousy, dispute, lament, closing, liturgy, ecstasy, conception, sanity and power.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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