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

Ariès, Professor Philippe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801815665 ISBN 13: 9780801815669

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974

Synopsis

"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 embarrassing family secret." -- Newsweek

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Ariés was a social historian whose books Centuries of Childhood and At the Hour of our Death won great acclaim when first published in France, England and the United States.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0801815665
• ISBN 13: 9780801815669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128