![]() ![]() He argues that prior to the seventeenth century, people were acutely aware of their own imminent death, prepared for it, and accepted it. In his first chapter, he discusses the first period, "Tamed Death", using a number of ancient texts and medieval romances. Covering over a millennium of history, Ariès divided Western Attitudes Toward Death into four separate periods, which make up the four major sections of the book: Tamed Death, One’s Own Death, Thy Death, and Forbidden Death. Because Ariès saw America as influential in changing the way the western world viewed death, he felt it was important to have his ideas circulating on both sides of the Atlantic. Western Attitudes Toward Death began as a series of lectures presented to Johns Hopkins University, which he gave for the express purpose of translation and publication. ![]() ![]() Ariès wrote several major books and articles on death mentalities and is credited with introducing death as a topic for historical inquiry. Ariès was well known for his work as a medievalist and a historian of the family, but the history of death was the subject of his work in his last decade of scholarly life. Published in 1974, Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present was French historian Philippe Ariès's first major publication on the subject of death. ![]()
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