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Western Attitudes Towards Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history) (Hardcover)

by Professor Philippe Ariès (Author), Professor Patricia Ranum (Translator) "The new behavioral sciences-and linguistics-have introduced the notions of diachrony and synchrony, which will perhaps be helpful to us historians ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1 April 1974)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0801815665
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801815669
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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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"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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5.0 out of 5 stars Different Perspective of History, 10 Jul 1998
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This review is from: Western Attitudes toward Death: from the Middle Ages to the Present (Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) (Paperback)
I initially started reading this for a "Sex and Death" class I took at school. Amazingly, "Western Attitudes Towards Death" has been one of the most inciteful books I've ever read. Aries makes it interesting to look at death in a historical aspect. For me, it was most interesting in the fact that you can see how people lived during a specific time period by studying how they viewed death. The parallels between life and death in EVERY society has become astonishingly clear to me. It's short reading...definately in a day...and well worth the time.
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