Western Attitudes toward Death
From the Middle Ages to the Present
$70.46
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
14 August 1975
Summary
Reveals the change in Western man’s conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780801817625 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0801817625 |
| Author: | Philippe Ariès, Patricia Ranum |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 1975 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History |
| Audience Age: | 17 |
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Critics Review
Aries traces Western man’s attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. Newsweek An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Aries’s work. – Robert Darnton New York Review of Books
Philippe Ariès
Philippe Ariès (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the seminal study that launched historical scholarship on childhood and family life in the Western world.
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