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Résumé :

(contribution donnée [en ligne] le mercredi 10 novembre 2021 au Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar d’Oxford) Abstract: Confusion still prevails over the homiletic output of St Joseph the Studite, a significant figure of the Second Iconoclasm, despite some light having been shed on his sermons in the past. The purpose of the present study is twofold: first, to establish definitively the admittedly small corpus of the author’s sermons, by further clarifying the issues posed by previous scholarship and examining certain aspects of theirs; and second, to offer the first edition of his last homily that has remained unpublished, the one on Palm Sunday, which contains a virulent attack on contemporary iconoclasts, as do Joseph’s other homilies. The critical edition is preceded by an extensive study dealing with the structure, sources, dating, delivery and manuscript tradition of the work, is accompanied by the necessary apparatuses (critical and fontium) and an English translation, which will make it accessible to a wider audience.