Part One: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Fall of Rome
1. Introductory Lecture
2. The Ancient Near East
3. Egyptian Civilization
4. The Early Greeks and the Rise of the Greek Polis
5. Divergent Models of the Polis: Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
6. The Peloponnesian War
7. The Macedonian Empire and its Dissolution
8. Early Rome and the Roman Republic
9. Crisis in the Roman Republic
10. The Fall of the Republic and the Beginning of the Imperial Period
11. Imperial Rome and Early Christianity
12. The Conversion of the Empire and the "Barbarian" Threat
13. The Dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West
Part Two: From the Fall of Rome to the Reformation
14. Early Medieval Europe
15. The Franks and Medieval Society
16. Viking Culture and Society
17. The Idea of England: Alfred the Great and His Progeny
18. The Medieval Church and Spiritual-Secular Conflicts
19. Monarchies, Papal and Secular
20. The Rise of Islam
21. The Crusades
22. Medieval Intellectual Life
23. Towns, Trade, and the Black Death
24. Renaissance I: Humanism and Culture
25. Renaissance II: Machiavelli and Secular Politics
26. Luther and the Protestant Reformation I
27. Luther and the Protestant Reformation II