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Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) by Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. (Translator). Ranum, Professor Patricia Ranum, Orest Ranum, Professor Philippe Arias Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1975 ISBN-10: 0-8018-1762-5 / 0801817625 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-1762-5 / 9780801817625 From the Middle Ages to the Present Philippe Ariès. was going to die and made ready.” On July 29, 1750, the day of Johann Sebastian Bach's death, Anna Magdalena Bach used the same phrase: “. . . feeling his end approach.” The same words are passed on from age to age, unchanged, like a proverb. We |