“Spectacular Death”—Proposing a New Fifth Phase to Philippe Ariès’s Admirable History of Death
This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed several decades ago by French historian Philippe Ariès. The article first outlines Ariès’s position starting out with th...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/19 |