Resumen de ¿Aprender de la historia o aprender historia?
This article is the result of a research about sacred rhetoric in the Seventeenth century, and the author's interest in the writing of History and its social function. With this essay the author aims to extend the debate about the use of History "¿historia para qué?". The analysis is undertaken from a rather unexplored angle: the relationship between "history as a teacher in life" and the concept of "commonplace" in the veteroeuropea culture. History as magistra vitae has been questioned by modernity in many ways. Nevertheless, its relationship with the moral loci communes from which this kind of history praised or vituperated vices and virtudes according to the rhetoric rules that were followed for that purpose -specially the amplificatio- becomes an interesting starting point to ask ourselves which is the social function of history nowadays, according to the substitution or survival of those "commonplaces" in the practice of the writing of History in the present.
