Disc 1. Part 1. Lecture 1. Long shadows and the Dark Ages -- lecture 2. Diocletian and the crises of the third century -- lecture 3. Constantine the Great : Christian emperor -- lecture 4. Pagans and Christians in the fourth century -- lecture 5. Athletes of God -- lecture 6. Augustine, part one -- Disc 2. lecture 7. Augustine, part two -- lecture 8. Barbarians at the gate -- lecture 9. Franks and Goths -- lecture 10. Arthur's England -- lecture 11. Justinian and the Byzantine Empire -- lecture 12. The house of Islam --
Disc 3. Part 2. Lecture 13. Rise of the Carolingians
lecture 15. Carolingian Christianity
lecture 16. The Carolingian Renaissance
lecture 17. Fury of the Northmen
lecture 18. Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
Disc 4. lecture 19. The birth of France and Germany
lecture 20. England in the age of Alfred
lecture 21. Al-Andalus : Islamic Spain
lecture 22. Carolingian Europe : gateway to the Middle Ages
lecture 23. Family life : how then became now
lecture 24. Long shadows and the Dark Ages revisited.