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The representation of groups in speech situations poses particular technical problems for authors. The form they give to multicharacter conversations is indicative of their conception of the individual within the group or the group’s predisposition to conflict or consensus. In developing the concept of discursive agency, in a corpus made up of the three romances of Antiquity, we perceive the place that the mighty laypeople take in the literary representations of the feudal councils. Although the majority of group conversations are conducted by means of collective voices, many characters show a real capacity to speak for themselves, to oppose, to persuade. Their discursive presence within the group favors dissenting postures that allow us to perceive the medieval taste for debate.