Abstract

Medieval bestiary is treated in the article as a part of medieval semiotics that considered any thing in the world as a sign. In the bestiary the signs are not the animals themselves, but their individual properties,the meaning of which can vary depending on the context. This explains the exceptional polysemy inherent in the animals of bestiary. The provided examples show how such “animal signs” were used by medieval authors in the construction of extended statements.

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