Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“An Italian text from 1490 shows how spontaneous and natural was the clear recognition of imminent death, and how fundamentally alien to the miraculous or to Christian piety. We are now in a psychological climate very remote from that of the chansons de geste: a commercial town of the Renaissance. In Spoleto there lived a pretty girl, young and flirtatious,… — Philippe Ariès Copy Share
The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared.… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional)… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to cheat death… — Philippe Ariès Copy Share Image
