The aim of this session is to shed light on some of the theoretical and broader issues concerning the European history is conceived, understood, imagined. Mihail Larsen will uphold an idea of European culture with antique roots and in the tradition of Kant’s Universalgeschichte, pointing it out as a specific European, universal paradigm within a new global history, and as a norm for others to follow despite geographical, national, or even religious differences. The second paper, by Raolf Petri, will argue that historiography can show the intrinsic coherence of the European project as a discernible reality. Its usefulness and desirability is instead a matter of normative debates that should not interfere with historical enquiry. The third and final paper of this session, by Michael Wintle, in a bid to unpick Eurocentrism, will attempt to unearth the changing claims to a set of exclusive civilizational values on which a narrative of Europe has been based over the centuries. Gavin Murray-Miller will examine the implications of this shared langue employed by elites and its role in imagining a collective European framework and patrimony. In his paper, Lucio Valent will consider European narratives in their relationship with Christianity, focusing above all on the universalism of the European discourse. In the last paper of this session, Federico Leonardi tries to offer, after an analysis of crucial issues concerning the way European past is understood, a new possible narration of Europe based on a narration of a Eurasian History.