Description
Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
About the Author
Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the seminal study that launched historical scholarship on childhood and family life in the Western world.
Reviews
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 1974
Book Information
ISBN 9780801817625
Author Philippe Aries
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 159g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 10mm