Western Attitudes toward Death
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Philippe Ariès author Patricia Ranum translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:1st Aug '75
£21.50
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Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
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 1974
ISBN: 9780801817625
Dimensions: 203mm x 132mm x 10mm
Weight: 159g
128 pages