CENTURIES OF CHILDHOOD (447 pp.)—Philippe Aries—Knopf ($8.50). A man of the Middle Ages, dropped into the modern world, might gape at the jets and TV sets. But what would really set him back on his ...
Translation of: Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en Occident. Ariès traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of ...