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Philippe Ariès
AuthorBooks · Second hand1914-1984
Philippe Ariès was a French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. He wrote many books on common daily life. His most prominent works concerned the change in western attitudes towards death.
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About Philippe Ariès
Birth
1914
Death
1984
First book
1960
Years writing
66
Philippe Ariès was a French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. He wrote many books on common daily life. His most prominent works concerned the change in western attitudes towards death.
Philippe Ariès was a prominent French historian who revolutionized our understanding of daily life.
His seminal work on childhood forever changed how we perceive the evolution of the family in the Ancien Régime.
He deeply explored universal themes such as death and customs throughout history.
As a medievalist, he dedicated his career to unraveling the secrets of private life in past eras.
His legacy lives on in over one hundred works that analyze the human condition from a unique historical perspective.
