# Weekly Schedule

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### Week 1. [Prologue to the Middle Ages](prologue-to-the-middle-ages/the-class-begins)

* No online meet up this week.&#x20;
* Read the course guide (i.e. this website)
* Download and install Microsoft [Teams](digital-tools/teams).&#x20;
* Read through the [Syllabus](syllabus) (i.e. the front page and its subpages, from [Your Professors](syllabus/your-professor) to  [Supplemental Material](broken-reference)). A pdf version of the syllabus is on Perusall for you to annotate.
* Introduce yourself to your fellow students on Teams
* Sign in to [Perusall](../syllabus/textbooks#login-to-perusall-to-buy-textbooks) and buy the textbooks

### Week 2. Module 1.1 [When are the Middle Ages](module-1.-what-is-the-middle-ages/when-are-the-middle-ages)

* Our first online meet up on Teams!
* Do the reading assigned on Perusall
* Complete the Document Analysis&#x20;

### Week 3. Module 1.2 [Where are the Middle Ages](module-1.-what-is-the-middle-ages/where-are-the-middle-ages)

* Visit from Susan Tudin, History area specialist in the Library

### Week 4. Module 2.1 [The Late Roman Empire](module-1-the-late-antique-world/untitled)

* Read: 1-21 in _Short History of the Middle Ages_

### Week 5. Module 2.2 [The Transformation of Empire](module-1-the-late-antique-world/the-transformation-of-empire)

### Week 6. Module 3.1 [Successor Kingdoms](module-2-the-post-roman-mediterranean/untitled)

### Week 7. Module 3.2 [Eastern Roman Empire](module-2-the-post-roman-mediterranean/the-eastern-roman-empire)

### Week 8. Module 3.3 [The Rise and Spread of Islam](module-2-the-post-roman-mediterranean/the-rise-and-spread-of-islam)

### Week 9. Module 4.1 [Faith and Learning](module-4-society-and-culture/faith-and-learning)

* [Transcription Exercise](exercises/transcription-exercise)

### Week 11.Module 4.2 [Cities and Countryside](module-4-society-and-culture/cities-vs.-countryside)

### Week 11. Module 4.3 [Power Structures](module-4-society-and-culture/structures-of-power)

### Week 12. Module 4.4 [Social Structures](module-4-society-and-culture/slaves-and-serfs)
