Disc 1. The Medieval world --
The legacy of the Roman world --
The Christianization of Europe --
After the Roman Empire: hybrid cultures --
From Merovingian Gaul to Carolingian France.
Disc 2. Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance --
Byzantium, Islam, and the West --
The rearrangement of the medieval world --
The Norman conquest and the Bayeux tapestry.
Disc 3. King Arthur: the power of the legend --
The three orders of medieval society --
Pilgrimage and sainthood --
Knighthood and heraldry --
Piety, politics, and persecution.
Disc 4. The persistence of an ideal --
Late medieval religious institutions --
Daily life in a noble household --
Daily life in a medieval village --
Disc 5. Food and drink --
Music and entertainment --
The Black Death and its effects --
Childhood in the Middle Ages.
Disc 6. Marriage and the family --
Revolts, uprisings, and wars --
Toward the early modern period.
