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Death and the enlightenment : changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers
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Death and the enlightenment : changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers

by John McManners

This survey examines the rituals and attitudes surrounding death in eighteenth-century France, exploring the tension between religious tradition and Enlightenment thought. It analyses how mortality, disease, and burial rites influenced the period's cultural evolution.

Accession 29135 ISBN 0198264402 Publisher Oxford University Press
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