The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780394751566ISBN-10:394751566UPC:9780394751566Book Category:Social Science, History, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Social History, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.2531Product ID:SCNRG2RSV7
An "absolutely magnificent" book (The New Republic)--the fruit of almost two decades of study--that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780394751566ISBN-10:394751566UPC:9780394751566Book Category:Social Science, History, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Social History, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.2531Product ID:SCNRG2RSV7
PHILIPPE ARIÈS was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood. He is also the author of Centuries of Childhood, which was translated into English in 1962. He died in Paris in 1984.
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