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

Western Attitudes toward Death

From the Middle Ages to the Present

1974 • 134 pages

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

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The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History

The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History is a 4-book series first released in 1974 with contributions by Philippe Ariès and A. Adu Boahen.

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