PART I: Theoretical Framework
Chiara Ferella, Tanja Pommerening, and Ulrike Steinert
1. Introduction: The Embodied Mind of Premodern Cultures -
Barbara Tversky
2. World in Mind, Mind in World: The View from Cognitive Science
PART II: Experiencing and Conceptualizing the Human Body
Simone Gerhards
3. Some Remarks on the Conceptualization of the Sleeping Body in Ancient Egypt -
Rune Nyord
4. Bodies of Stone and Wood in Ancient Egypt -
Shahrzad Irannejad and Aleksandar Milenkovic
5. Of Organs, Functions, and Body Concepts: Localization in Empedocles and Nemesius -
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
6. Eroticizing the Body and Nature: A Comparative Reading of Hindu and Jewish Sacred Texts -
Reuven Kiperwasser
7. The Order(s) of the Universe and the (Dis)Order(s) of the Body -
Han Nijdam
8. Schemas of the Body and Body Metaphors in Medieval Frisian Law
PART III: Conceptualizing the Dead Body and Coping with Physical Death
Rebekka Pabst and Oxana Polozhentseva
9. Dead Bodies: Conceptualizations of the Corpse from Ancient Egyptian and Medieval Perspectives -
Fabian Neuwahl
10. "At Last Death Filled the Sanctuaries pf the Gods with Lifeless Bodies": Dead Bodies in Roman Plague Descriptions -
Adriana Gómez Aiza and Alondra Domínguez Ángeles
11. Self-Decapitation and Nahualism: Corporeal/Animistic Transposition in Mesoamerican Cosmovision -
Annette Kehnel
12. The Powers of the Quasi-dead Body: A Footnote to Michael Tomasello's Concept of Shared Intentionality and the Benefits of Cooperation
PART IV: Conceptualizing and Interacting with the Cosmos and Its Phenomena
Laura Borghetti, Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten, and Katharina Zartner
13. Night, Wind, and Sun: Personification of Celestial Phenomena in the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, and Byzantium -
Tom Hercules Davies
14. The World in Flux: Thinking through Cosmography in Greece, India, and Egypt -
Daniel W. Graham
15. The Development of Greek Cosmology -
Feray Coskun
16. Heavens, World, and Human Beings in the Ottoman Cosmographies
Vorschautext
