The Medieval world -- The legacy of the Roman world -- The Christianization of Europe -- After the Roman Empire: hybrid cultures -- Early monasticism -- From Merovingian Gaul to Carolingian France.
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance -- Byzantium, Islam, and the West -- The Viking invasions -- Alfred the Great -- The rearrangement of the medieval world -- The Norman conquest and the Bayeux tapestry.
King Arthur: the power of the legend -- The three orders of medieval society -- Pilgrimage and sainthood -- Knighthood and heraldry -- The Gothic cathedral -- Piety, politics, and persecution.
The persistence of an ideal -- Late medieval religious institutions -- The Magna Carta -- Daily life in a noble household -- Daily life in a medieval village -- Medieval city life.
Food and drink -- Music and entertainment -- Dress and fashion -- Medieval medicine -- The Black Death and its effects -- Childhood in the Middle Ages.
Marriage and the family -- Art and artisans -- Science an technology -- Weapons and warfare -- Revolts, uprisings, and wars -- Toward the early modern period.
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