Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface: What is Cognitive History? -- Introduction -- Human Mind in Space and Time: Prolegomena to a Cognitive History -- Evolution -- The Evolution of Thinking: Cognitive Semiotics in between Deep History and the History of Mentalities -- Language -- Cognitive History and Language -- Rationality -- The Axiomatic-Deductive Ideal in Early Modern Thinking: A Cognitive History of Human Rationality -- Spatiality -- The Venice Experience: A Case Study of the Connection between Language and Situated Cognition -- Materiality -- Making "Home": The Home as a Cognitive Artefact -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Editors -- Authors