Catalan “Sedition” in the 17th Century: An anti-catalan poem in latin about the reapers' War – The seditio Catalaunica

• Antoni Biosca ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat d'Alacant

     Universitat d'Alacant

     Alicante, España

     
• Localización: History of Catalonia and its implications for contemporary nationalism and cultural conflict / coord. por Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines Peres, 2021, ISBN 9781799866152, págs. 101-107
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The Latin poem Seditio Catalaunica, still unedited and lacking studies and translation, is a clear example of the anti-Catalan mentality typical of the Reapers´ War in 17th-century Spain. In this poem, kept in a 17th-century MS held at the Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, we can find clear references to Catalonia´s and Catalans´ guilt in the war, as well as accusation of treason and sedition. The epic poem, composed of over 1,200 Latin hexameters, is accompanied by five brief that insist on the same idea. This accusation of sedition has also served in recent times to try in a court of law pro-independence Catalan leaders in 2019, so that we can analyze this poem as a precedent of Spanish politics with regard to Catalonia.