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The Josephina , an epic poem of almost 3,000 hexameters, was composed by Jean Gerson, Chancellor of the University of Paris, between 1414 and 1417, mainly during the Council of Constance. Written at a time of great political and ecclesiastical turmoil, …

If Mary hardly occupies a place in Calvin's theology, unlike Luther's, Joseph is even less present. In his Treatise on Relics (1543), Calvin first mocks the sock-relics found in some churches, but he makes room for Jesus' earthly father when he comments …

Long before he became a reference point for fathers and craftsmen, even before his sanctity was fully recognized, Joseph was of interest to a number of churchmen, theologians and religious, who found in him a figure to inspire their way of life and …

Chair: Olivier Boulnois, École pratique des hautes études For the Bishop of Hippo, Joseph was less a subject of interest than a source of problems. Sermon 51, delivered in Carthage in 403/404, is the only major synthesis of Augustine's writings on the …

From the mid-12th to the mid-13th century, before the great systematic translations of the Bible, biblical or hagiographic poems in French flourished, in which the figure of Joseph appears in connection with that of Mary. The most remarkably amplified …