Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Aries
Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
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
Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
Philippe Aries (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.
Preface
Chapter 1. Tamed Death
Chapter 2. One's Own Death
Chapter 3. Thy Death
Chapter 4. Forbidden Death
Index