Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France

By John McManners

Book Overview

Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198264402
• ISBN13: 9780198264408
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.