St Fursa, the genealogy of an Irish saint—the historical person and his cult

IF 0.3 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.05

Steffi Hamann

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Abstract:The Irish saint Fursa (d. 649) is renowned for his visions of the otherworld, transmitted in a near-contemporary Vita. He also appears in the Irish martyrologies and genealogies, the latter attributing to him a variety of pedigrees on his father's as well as his mother's side. This paper aims to show that by combining evidence from different types of sources; biographies, genealogies (Corpis genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae and Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae), martyrologies (Félire Óengusso, Martyrology of Donegal and Martyrology of Cashel), and several Irish saints' Lives, it is possible to single out the most probable strand of tradition for the saint's origins. As it turns out, Fursa's differing genealogical affiliations mirror the subsequent shifts in political and ecclesiastical developments in Irish medieval history. Viewed from this perspective, the genealogies can supply valuable source material necessary for a biographical approach to a personality of the early Middle Ages.

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圣弗尔萨，一个爱尔兰圣人的家谱——历史人物和他的崇拜

摘要:爱尔兰圣人弗尔萨(公元649年)以他对另一个世界的看法而闻名，他的观点在近当代的《维塔》中得到了传播。他也出现在爱尔兰的殉难志和家谱中，后者将他的父亲和母亲的各种家谱归因于他。本文旨在通过综合不同来源的证据来证明;传记，家谱(Corpis genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae和Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae)，殉道学(f， Donegal殉道学和Cashel殉道学)，以及几个爱尔兰圣徒的生活，有可能选出最可能的圣徒起源的传统链。事实证明，弗萨不同的宗谱关系反映了爱尔兰中世纪历史上政治和教会发展的后续变化。从这个角度来看，家谱可以为中世纪早期人格的传记研究提供必要的有价值的原始材料。

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