@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt16f8d2b.5, ISBN = {9780812247480}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16f8d2b.5}, abstract = {Born most likely in the mid-to late 1350s, Profayt Duran belonged to a relatively well-off family that had been settled in Perpignan, a city at the northernmost tip of Catalonia, for at least a generation.¹ In absolute numbers, the Perpignan Jewish community was not impressive: hearth-tax rolls indicate between one hundred and three hundred families out of a total population of approximately eighteen thousand over the course of the fourteenth century, a size far below that of the Jewish community either in Barcelona or in Narbonne in southern France.² But despite its small numbers, the Perpignan community flourished.Under King}, bookauthor = {Maud Kozodoy}, booktitle = {The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus: Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia}, pages = {15--36}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, title = {Honoratus de Bonafide, olim vocatus Profayt Duran, judeus}, year = {2015} }