TTC - The High Middle Ages

The Teaching Company

The High Middle Ages (Course No. 869)

Prof. Philip Daileader

The College of William and Mary

Ph.D., Harvard University 





Course Lecture Titles

  	

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





As the last millennium dawned, Europe didn't amount to much.



Illiteracy, starvation, and disease were the norm.



In fact, Europe in the year 1000 was one of the world's more stagnant regions—an economically undeveloped, intellectually derivative, and geopolitically passive backwater.



Three short centuries later, all this had changed dramatically. A newly invigorated cluster of European societies revived city life, spawned new spiritual and intellectual movements and educational institutions, and began, for reasons both sacred and profane, to expand at the expense of neighbors who traditionally had expanded at Europe's expense.