

Philippe Ariès
Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
Ariès 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.
An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Ariès's work.
Preface
Chapter 1. Tamed Death
Chapter 2. One's Own Death
Chapter 3. Thy Death
Chapter 4. Forbidden Death
Index
with Hopkins Press Books