For people living in the Middle Ages, death was not the end but the beginning of a spiritual journey. Medieval Christians ...

First, a word of thanks. I felt a little bit out there last month when I wrote about the death of one friend and the pending death of another. That maybe the column was simply too personal. But the ...

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 ...