| 1 | Class Introduction: Rome, the Mediterranean, and the Meaning of Europe |
| 2-3 | The Shape of Late Antiquity and the Barbarian Invasions |
| 4-5 | The Emergence of New Cultures, 600-750 |
| 7 | The Split Between East and West |
| 8-9 | The Papal-Frankish Alliance and other New Powers |
| 10-11 | Charlemagne's Heirs and other Disasters |
| 13 | More Invasions and the (Feudal) Search for Peace |
| 14 | Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany |
| 15 | Mid-term Written Evaluation |
| 16-17 | Feudal Governments at Work |
| 18-19 | Feudal Society at Work |
| 21 | The Solidification of Institutions of Government |
| 22-23 | The Power and Splendor of Monarchs |
| 24 | The Structure and Place of the Gothic Cathedral |
| 26-27 | The End of the Synthesis: Plague, War and Schism |
| 28-29 | One Historian's take on all that |