This is a course about imagination: how did people in early modern Europe envision themselves and their changing culture? How did their ideas about societies, individuals and social relations change and indeed, where did their ideas about such categories stay the same? Running from around 1380 to around 1750 the course will introduce you to the Renais- sance and the Reformation through the intellectual transformations that these movements provoked on into the Enlightenment, along with their long term social repercussions.