part I: 1. Why the Middle Ages? -- 2. Demography and the commercial revolution -- 3. Those who fought: the nobles -- 4. The chivalric code -- 5. Feudalism -- 6. Those who worked: the peasants -- 7. Those who worked: the townspeople -- 8. Women in medieval society -- 9. Those who prayed: the monks -- 10. Francis of Assisi & the Franciscan movement -- 11. Heretics & heresy -- 12. The medieval inquisitions.
part II: 13. Jews & Christians -- 14. The origins of scholasticism -- 15. Aquinas & the problem of Aristotle -- 16. The first universities -- 17. The People's Crusade -- 18. The conquest of Jerusalem -- 19. The Norman Conquest -- 20. Philip II of France -- 21. Magna Carta -- 22. Empire versus papacy -- 23. Emperor Frederick II -- 24. Looking back, looking forward.
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