Lecturae Tropatorum (Jun 2016)
Joyos de Tholoza, "L’autrier el dous temps de pascor" (BdT 270.1)
Abstract
Very little is known about Joyos de Tholoza. He probably came from the County of Foix and lived in the second quarter of the thirteenth century. In the third stanza of his only extant song it is the poet who claims to be called Joyos and to come from Tholoza. This is probably not a real name but functions as a rhetorical device to create a contrast with his true state as a sad and suffering lover. L'autrier el dous temps de pascor (BdT 270.1), is Joyos’ only poem, copied in Chansonnier C; it is a text that contains a series of peculiarities both from the metrical and the thematic viewpoint. This paper proposes to look again at the poem’s versification and rhyme structure, as well as its polyphonic nature on the basis of its themes and lexicon.
