Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)

by PhilippeAriès (Author), PatriciaRanum (Translator)

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1975
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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

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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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Aug 1975
ISBN 10: 0801817625
ISBN 13: 9780801817625

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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 *