PERSONAJES SOCIALES, UNA CLAVE EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE IDENTIDAD COLECTIVA: LA EDAD MEDIA

This historiographical article identifies and explains some of the social characteristics personality collective identity certain representative figures medieval history (villicus, knight, courtier, civil servant, polygraph european witch) from self-assertion conceptual perspective raised by German sociologist Norber Elias. A study carried out combination methodological collectivism, in which material cultural conditions are fundamental to contextualize explain into historical proceses, individualism, warns us presence interference individual episodes creation a process time space. These elements allow establish that all these characters were conceived rural, peasant feudal matrix, relatively autarkic, evolved crucible an urban, mercantile courtly structure.