I. Early Christianity, ca. 150-600. Pivotal moments in early Christianity
II. Early-Medieval Christianity, ca. 600-1050. Beginnings : the conversion of the West and the emergence of Celtic Christianity ; Foundations : monasticism, the papacy, and mission ; Holy Empire? Christianity, Charlemagne, and the Carolingian ; Parochial life and the proprietary church, ca. 700-1050 ; Christians and Jews, ca. 400-1100 ; Islam and Western Christianity, ca. 600-1450
III. High-Medieval Christianity, ca. 1050-1300. Libertas Ecclesiae : the age of reform, ca. 1050-1125 ; Religiosi : monks and nuns in the monastic centuries ; Heresy and Its repression ; Dominicans and their sisters ; Fraticelli : Franciscans and their sisters ; The philosopher, the fathers, and the faith : scholasticism and the university ; The bid for papal monarchy ; To "deepen understanding" : means of Christianization, 1050-1250 ; Devotion : saints, relics, and pilgrimage ; A lachrymose age : Christians and Jews, 1096-1492
IV: Later-Medieval Christianity, ca. 1300-1500. Dark Ages? Popes and Councils, ca. 1300-1450 ; "Morning stars" or heretics? Wyclif, Hus, and followers ; Late-Medieval contours of reform, 1380-1500 ; Late-Medieval piety and its problems
