This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence. Nevertheless, it should offer the reader stimulation and food for thought in the critical approach to even the least questioned facts of semiotic history and the emphasis given to hitherto neglected problems and persons.

Arguing that the medieval theory of signs does not represent a unique body of semiotic notions, this collection of essays represents an attempt to encourage firther researches on the variety of semiotic approaches offered by the medieval philosophies of language.