Jofre de Foixa, “Subrafusa ab cabirol” (BdT 304.4)

Abstract

Jofre de Foixa’s verses “Subrafusa ab cabirol” (BdT 304.4) merit attention for the light the two ‘coblas’ shed on Jofre’s familiarity with his Occitan predecessors, for the information the text provides regarding food practices in his time, and for the use of a food term rare in the Iberian peninsula, “unyo”. The resources of culinary history, specifically fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Languedocian and Catalan cookbooks, allow us better to understand the meaning of Jofre’s lyric.

Keywords

• Jofre de Foixa
• Troubadours
• Old Occitan
• Textual criticism
• Interpretation