The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 (Yale)

• Course Introduction: Rome’s Greatness and First Crises (Yale)
• The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms (Yale)
• Constantine and the Early Church (Yale)
• The Christian Roman Empire (Yale)
• St. Augustine’s Confessions (Yale)
• Transformation of the Roman Empire (Yale)
• Barbarian Kingdoms (Yale)
• Survival in the East (Yale)
• The Reign of Justinian (Yale)
• Clovis and the Franks (Yale)
• Frankish Society (Yale)
• Britain and Ireland (Yale)
• Monasticism (Yale)
• Mohammed and the Arab Conquests (Yale)
• Islamic Conquests and Civil War (Yale)
• The Splendor of the Abbasid Period (Yale)
• The Crucial Seventh Century (Yale)
• The Splendor of Byzantium (Yale)
• Charlemagne (Yale)
• Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne (Yale)
• Crisis of the Carolingians (Yale)