Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. Ranum

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. Ranum

128 pages • first pub 1974 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Ariès 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 em...

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