by PhilippeAriès (Author), PatriciaRanum (Translator)
AriA]s 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
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Aug 1975
ISBN 10: 0801817625
ISBN 13: 9780801817625