Medieval foundations of the western intellectual tradition, 400-1400

Part 1. From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian culture of the early Middle Ages

Part 2. Vernacular culture

Part 3. Early medieval civilizations compared

Part 4. Latin and vernacular literature

Part 5. Mysticism, devotion, and heresy

Part 6. High and late medieval speculative thought

Part 7. The legacy of scholasticism.

Part 1. From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian culture of the early Middle Ages. From apology to the Constantinian establishment ; The Latin church fathers, I: Ambrose and Jerome ; The Latin church fathers, II: Augustine and Gregory the Great ; Hanging by a thread: the transmitters and Monasticism ; Europe's new schoolmasters: Franks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons ; The Carolingian Renaissance

Part 2. Vernacular culture. Celtic and old French literature ; Varieties of Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old High German, and Old English

Part 3. Early medieval civilizations compared. Imperial culture: Byzantium ; Peoples of the book: Muslim and Jewish thought ; Western European thought in the tenth and eleventh centuries

Part 4. Latin and vernacular literature. The Renaissance of the twelfth century ; Courtly love literature ; Goliardic poetry, fabliaux, satire, and drama ; Later medieval literature

Part 5. Mysticism, devotion, and heresy. Cistercians and Victorines ; Franciscans, Dominicans, and later medieval mystics ; Heresy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; The Christian commonwealth reconfigured: Wycliff and Huss

Part 6. High and late medieval speculative thought. Scholasticism and the rise of universities ; The twelfth century: the Logica Modernorum and systematic theology ; The thirteenth century: modism and terminism, Latin Averroism, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas ; Later medieval scholasticism: the triumph of terminism, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

Part 7. The legacy of scholasticism. The natural sciences: reception and criticism ; Economic theory: poverty, the just price, and usury ; Political theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, conciliarism, feudal monarchy.