1. General introduction.- 2. A brief review of the fundamentals of QCD.- 3. The non-relativistic quark model.- 4. The MIT bag model.- 5. Cavity perturbation theory.- 6. Chiral symmetry and the bag model.- 7. Some applications of bag models.- 8. Topology and the nucleon.- 9. The nucleon-nucleon interaction.- 10. Recent problems and conclusions.