Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present

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xi, 111 pp. Black & white illustrations. Translated by Patricia M. Ranum, preface by Orest Ranum. 'Aries traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval con ception 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 Show more