Philippe Ariès

'The Hour of Our Death'

Bog | Engelsk

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, Th

'Western Attitudes toward Death'

Bog | Engelsk

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