General introduction to the Middle Ages
1. The Middle Ages as a set of problems (historiographic and cultural). Periodization and geography of the Middle Ages.
2. East vs. West: Late antiquity, Greek world and Roman world.
3. Migrations and invasions; the Germanic component of the Middle Ages.
Block 1 - Political and social institutions in the High Middle Ages
4. Christianity and its political-social implications.
5. Dioceses and bishops, kings and leaders in Western Europe.
6. Islam: birth and Mediterranean expansion.
Block 2 - The ideology of the European empire
7. Byzantium and the continuation of the Roman Empire.
8. From the Frankish kingdom to the Holy Roman Empire.
9. The empire as a political-territorial question.
Block 3 - Feudal society
10. Origin and development of feudal structures.
11. Feudal societies between the Iberian Peninsula, central and eastern Europe.
Block 4 - Expansion of Europe during the Late Middle Ages
12. Three great civilizations in the Mediterranean area
13. The Crusades between religion, literature and economy. Ancient and recent historiography on the Crusades
Block 5 - Relations between the national kingdoms in the Late Middle Ages
14. The Hundred Years War