Disc 1. Augustine of Hippo --
Ambrose, Jerome, and Gregory the Great --
Boethius and the Consolation of philosophy --
Isidore of Seville and the Etymologies --
Alcuin, Charlemagne, and Alfred the Great --
Disc 2. Avicenna and the golden age of Islam --
Alhacen and the scientific method --
Averroes and Aristotelian philosophy --
Maimonides and Jewish law --
Reshi and biblical interpretation --
Saladin and the defeat of the crusaders --
Disc 3. Hildegard of Bingen --
Peter Lombard and the Sentences --
William of Ockham and John Duns Scotus --
Disc 4. Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri --
Sir Thomas Malory and Le morte Darthur --
WIlliam Caxton and the Birth of printing.