Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the

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

"AriÃ¨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

Country	USA
Author	Professor Philippe Ariès
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781421400570
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Press
NumberOfPages	132
PublicationDate	1975-08-01
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
ReleaseDate	1975-08-01
Studio	Johns Hopkins University Press

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