Geschichte Des Todes by Philippe Ariès
A cultural history tracing how Western attitudes and practices around death evolved from the medieval “tamed” acceptance—where dying was communal and ritualized—through growing personalization and anxiety in the early modern period to the modern era’s professionalized, medicalized, and increasingly hidden handling of death. Drawing on art, literature, legal records and funeral customs, it identifies distinct regimes of dying and mourning, shows how religious, social and medical changes reshaped rites and emotions surrounding death, and argues that modernity has both privatized grief and distanced the living from the dying.
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- Geschichte des Todes
- L'Homme devant la mort
- The Hour of Our Death
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