LEC #	TOPICS
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