The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus: Profayt Duran and Jewish I

"A long overdue study dedicated to a unique figure in late Iberian Jewish letters, Profayt Duran. Maud Kozodoy meticulously grounds her subject in the political, cultural, and intellectual history of his moment and moves carefully through Profayt Duran´s major works, which are beautifully read, cited, and contextualized."—Susan Einbinder, University of Connecticut "This rich and engaging work of intellectual and cultural analysis examines the inner and outer worlds of a key—yet hitherto relatively obscure—figure in late fourteenth-century Spain: the astronomer, philosopher, grammarian, theologian, and Jewish converso Profayt Duran. Through the careful study of Duran´s wide-ranging oeuvre, Maud Kozodoy explores the links between Duran´s scientific, philosophical, and religious ideas and his identity as a forced convert to Christianity, illuminating the complexities of converso identity before and after the mass forced conversions of 1391."—Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University