1. How did medieval religious hymns, drama, and goliardic poetry develop? What were the principal themes of these literary forms?
2. What are the major medieval epics? How did these develop? What sources did they draw from, and what themes do they explore?
3. How does the poetry of chivalric love represent important cultural developments in Europe? What values did it promote among the nobility? How were women represented, and what role did they play in troubadour culture? What did Marie de France contribute to this literary genre?
4. How did Dante come to write the Divine Comedy? How is the work structured, and what is the significance of that structure? How does the character of Dante progress through the work, and how does that progress exemplify the medieval world view?
5. When did the Romanesque style in architecture flourish? What are the basic characteristics of this style.  What variations on those characteristics appear in the regional styles throughout Europe?
6. When did the Gothic style in architecture flourish? How did it evolve from the Romanesque style, and what are its basic characteristics? What are the notable regional variations on those characteristics?
7. How did Romanesque and Gothic sculpture develop? What characteristics do they share, and how do they differ? What are the notable examples of each style?
8. What were the major forms of medieval pictorial art? What techniques do they involve, and what themes do they typically explore?
9. How did music evolve during the Middle Ages? What classical sources did music theorists draw from, and how did they use those sources to conceptualize a unique Western music? How did techniques of notation, polyphony, and instrumentation develop during this period? Who were the major figures of medieval music, and what did they contribute?
10. How did the medieval arts embody the age's Christian world view? What influence did these arts and their themes exert on subsequent ages?