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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ariès, Philippe. Hour of our death. New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1981 (OCoLC)557659716 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philippe Ariès |
| ISBN: | 0394410742 9780394410746 |
| OCLC Number: | 6278130 |
| Language Note: | Translation of L'homme devant la mort. |
| Notes: | Translation of L'homme devant la mort. |
| Description: | xvii, 651 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Sleepers of stone -- The tame death -- Place of burial -- The death of self -- The hour of death: the final reckoning -- Guarantees of eternity -- Tombs and epitaphs -- Death untamed -- Remote and imminent death -- The turning of the tide -- The vanities -- The dead body -- The living dead -- The death of the other -- The age of the beautiful death -- The visit to the cemetery -- The invisible death -- Death denied -- Five variations on four themes. |
| Other Titles: | Homme devant la mort. |
| Responsibility: | Philippe Ariès ; translated from the French by Helen Weaver. |
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