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 Western
Attitudes toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present
Philippe Aries
Chandeliers
made of human bones? Dancing and gambling in cemeteries? This classic
history of Western attitudes toward death uncovers amazing and morbid
facts, providing the context for our present attitudes regarding
death as something shameful and forbidden. An eye-opening look at
past funereal rituals and how they changed into today's also-strange
practices.
Softcover,
111 pp.
# 00357 $12.95
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