Western Attitudes Toward Death From the Middle Ages to the Present |
|
| Author:
| Ariès, Philippe |
| Translator:
| Ranum, Patricia |
| Series title: | The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-1762-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1975 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
|
''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
''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