1. Introductory questions
   What is philosophy? – What are the middle ages? – Genuine philosophy in the middle ages? – Philosophy of the Bible, of the gospels? – Christian philosophy? – Philosophy and theology – Bibliography
2. The Fathers of the Chuch and philosophy
   Conditions of philosophy and of christianity in the late Roman Empire – Alexandrian school – Platonism – Greek fathers of 4th century – Western Fathers – Later Eastern fathers.
3. From the Roman empire to Medieval Europe
   The destruction of the Roman empire and the „Migration of nations“ – Boethius – Cassiodorus – Isidorius Hispalensis – Venerable Bede.
4. The „Carolingian Renaissance”
   Conditions of the Carolingian Renaissance – The Irish mission – Alcuinus – Hrabanus Maurus – Walafrid Strabo – Johannes Scotus Eriugena
5. Early Scholasticism
   Scholasticism – The monastery schools – St. Anselm – The „first quarrel of the universals“ – Petrus Abelardus – Women mystics – The cathedral schools – Bernardus Claraevallensis – Petrus Damiani – The Victorins.
6. Philosophy in medieval Islamic and Jewish culture
   Philosophy in the medieval Islamic wor – Philosophy in Judaism – Byzantine philosophy – Jewish-Arabic-Christian relations..
7. High Scholasticism
   Philosophy at Paris – The poverty movement: mendicants – Albertus Magnus – Thomas de Aquino – Bonaventura – The middle Franciscans, correctoria – Radical Aristotelism, 1277 .
8. Late Scholasticism: the 14th century
   The conditions of 14th century – Eckhart and Rhenaninan mystics – Meister Eckhart – Non Thomistic French Dominicans – Johannes Duns Scotus – William Ockham – Radical Aristotelian Political philosophy – The great pest, formalisation of university philosophy – John Gerson and antiphilosophy.
9. Late Scholasticism: the 15th century
   The conditions of 15th century – Nominalism: via moderna – Thomism: via antiqua – Albertism – Nicolaus de Cusa – Political philosophy in the 15th century, Johannes de Torquemada – Renaissance philosophy – Outlook to the 16th century: America, Reformation.
10. Conclusion: Return to the general questions.

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Last revised: 8.7.2007.