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Author Ariès, Philippe, author.

Title Western attitudes toward death: from the Middle Ages to the present / by Philippe Ariès ; translated by Patricia M. Ranum
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1974]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 111 pages) : illustrations
Series Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history ; 4th
Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history ; 4th
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Tamed Death -- II. One's Own Death -- III. Thy Death -- IV. Forbidden Death -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times
Analysis Death Attitudes of society Western world, ca 1200-1972
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Death.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Folklore.
Mortuary Practice -- history
Attitude to Death
Folklore
Death
deaths.
folklore (culture-related concept)
Folklore
Death -- Psychological aspects
Death
Tod
Philosophie
Geschichte
Dood.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Ranum, Patricia M., translator.
ISBN 9781421400570
142140057X
9780801817625
0801817625
Other Titles Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en Occident. English
Western attitudes toward death