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I. Translatio Studii and Christian Didacticism in the Physiologus Tradition I. Translatio Studii and Christian Didacticism in the Physiologus Tradition
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II. Translatio and Neoplatonic Metaphysics in Medieval Bestiaries II. Translatio and Neoplatonic Metaphysics in Medieval Bestiaries
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III. Translation, Etymology, and Epistemology in the B-Isidore Tradition III. Translation, Etymology, and Epistemology in the B-Isidore Tradition
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IV. Translation, Ontology, and the Ordering of Human Nature IV. Translation, Ontology, and the Ordering of Human Nature
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(a) Bilingual Translation and Double Human Nature: The Onoscentaur (a) Bilingual Translation and Double Human Nature: The Onoscentaur
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(b) Translation and Male/Christian Human Natures: The Hyena (b) Translation and Male/Christian Human Natures: The Hyena
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V. Ecce Animot V. Ecce Animot
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6 Translating Nature in French Verse Bestiaries: Translation and/as Ontology
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Published:October 2023
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Abstract
French verse bestiaries participate in translatio as an interlinguistic mode of textual transmission that disseminated the Greek Physiologus; they also use multiple, intersecting forms of translation to uncover the spiritual truths that the world was thought to contain. By engaging with the untranslatability of bestiary creatures, French bestiaries derived from the B-Isidore branch of the Latin Physiologus activate the ontological potential of translation as well as its epistemological capacities. Translation in these works is a way of understanding the world and of reflecting on (human) being itself. This use of translation is compared with Derrida’s concept of the ‘animot’, which uses linguistic translation to think beyond the supposed human–animal divide. Bestiaries expose the historical limitations of Derrida’s concepts of language and of the human–animal binary he deconstructs, while nonetheless sharing Derrida’s interest in translation as a process that reveals what animal and human natures have the potential to become.
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