The ''partimen'' (; ca, partiment ; also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit'') is a cognate form of the French
jeu-parti (plural ''jeux-partis''). It is a
genre of
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
Occitan (; o ...
lyric poetry composed between two
troubadours, a
subgenre of the ''
tenso'' or
''cobla'' exchange in which one poet presents a
dilemma in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. Of the nearly 200 surviving Occitan debate songs, 120 are ''partimens'' and 75 are open ''tensos''.
The ''partimen'' was especially popular in poetic contests. See also
Torneyamen.
References
Further reading
*
Alfred Jeanroy, ''Les origines de la poésie lyrique en France au Moyen-Age'' (Paris, 1899, 3/1925)
*Alfred Jeanroy: ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours'' (Toulouse and Paris, 1934/''R''), ii, 247–81
*Ruth Harvey, Linda M. Paterson and Anna Radaelli, eds.: ''The troubadour tensos and partimens: a critical edition'' (Cambridge, 2010).
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Western medieval lyric forms
Occitan literary genres