论中世纪学者樊尚的“自然史”观念

On the Medieval Scholar Vincent de Beauvais’ “Natural History”

中世纪学者博韦的樊尚在百科全书著作《自然之镜》中整理了13世纪以前关于动植物等自然物的文本知识,并在中世纪罕见地提出了"自然史"(historia naturalis)一词作为自己著作的内容。"自然史"的"自然"是12世纪欧洲"自然的发现"的后果,标志着一个纯外在性的领域;"史"则是通过叙事(narratio)为这种脱离于人类的外在性赋予意义的回应策略。

In his Speculum naturale,the medieval scholar Vincent de Beauvais collected knowledge of animals and plants from pre-thirteenth century texts,and proposed historia naturalis as the theme of his work.Natura in historia naturalis was a consequence of"Discovery of Nature"in the twelfth-century in Europe which marked a field of pure externality.Historia in historia naturalis,on the other hand,was Vincent’s response to that non-human externality through narratio.