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

Aričs, Philippe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0801817625 ISBN 13: 9780801817625

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975

Riassunto

Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.

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Recensione

"Aričs 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)

"An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Aričs's work."

(Robert Darnton New York Review of Books)

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"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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0801817625
• ISBN 13: 9780801817625
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 128