{{italic title}} The '''''partimen''''' ({{IPA|oc|paɾtiˈmen, paʀtiˈme|lang}}; {{langx|ca|partiment}} {{IPA|ca|pəɾtiˈmen|}}; 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 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''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Matheis|first=Eric|title=Capital, value and exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)|publisher=PhD Diss., Columbia University|year=2014|pages=51}}</ref> The ''partimen'' was especially popular in poetic contests. See also Torneyamen.
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==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). {{Western medieval lyric forms}} {{Authority control}}
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