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

by Philippe Ariès, Patricia Ranum (Translator)

Overview

Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421400570
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1974
Series:	The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Philippe Ariès (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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Tamed Death
Chapter 2. One's Own Death
Chapter 3. Thy Death
Chapter 4. Forbidden Death
Index

Editorial Reviews

An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Aries' work. New York Review of Books

Robert Darnton

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

An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Ariès's work.
--Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books

From the Publisher

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

An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Ariès's work.

New York Review of Books - Robert Darnton

"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