Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
of Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. Ranum (Translator)
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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 embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 128 pages
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date August 1st 1975
- First Publication 04/01/74
- Language English
- ISBN 9780801817625
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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