ABSTRACT
The fourth chapter of this monograph is structured as a further excursus, necessary to elucidate the fulcrum of Hugh’s semiotic concerns through an analysis of its roots in the aftermath of the Berengarian controversy. By clarifying the semiotic kernel of the Berengarian controversy, this chapter outlines Hugh’s semiotics as neither based on a Berengarian mutual otherness of the sign to its signified reality, nor in a more Paschasian ontological identification of the signum to its res, but in a balance between the two opposing systems, based on a description of a realist, sacramental ontology.
