Concepts and interpretive frameworks -- Roman legacy -- Migration period -- Christianity and Islam -- Society and economy in the early middle ages -- World of the franks -- Accelerated growth -- Religious renewal and reform, 1000-1250 -- Early kingdoms and territorial principalities, 900-1200 -- Weakening centres of power in the east and the beginnings of european expansion -- Urbanized society -- Thinking about man and the world -- Between crisis and contraction -- Consolidatin of states -- Crisis in the church and reorientation of the faithful, 1250-1500 -- New times?