Joan Miralhas was
troubadour
A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairi ...
of
Béziers in the late 13th century. Nothing is known of him besides this and that he wrote a ''
partimen
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 lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the '' ten ...
'' with
Raimon Gaucelm
Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers (fl. 1262–1275) was a Languedocian troubadour with nine surviving works. Many of his works appear with dates in the rubrics in manuscript ''C'', a 14th-century work now "BN f.f. 856" in the Bibliothèque nationale de ...
, ''Joan Miralhas, si Dieu vos gart de dol''. In it Raimon poses the question whether Joan would prefer to have the soles of his feet attached to the top of his head so that he was circular or have his entire body between his head and his ankles removed so that he had feet sticking out of his chin. Joan's initial response to his humorous and playful "dilemma" is this:
Sources
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Riquer, Martín de. ''Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos''. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
External links
Joan Miralhas, si Dieu vos gart de dolat Rialto.
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13th-century French troubadours
People from Béziers