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 and the Franciscan movement

11. Heretics and heresy

12. The medieval inquisitions.

part II: 13. Jews and Christians

14. The origins of scholasticism

15. Aquinas and 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.