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Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
Philippe Aries
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
Philippe Aries
AriA]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
128 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 26, 1975 |
ISBN13 | 9780801817625 |
Publishers | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 128 |
Dimensions | 203 × 133 × 10 mm · 166 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Ranum, Patricia |