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Philippe Ariès (French: [filip aʁjɛs]; 21 July 1914 – 8 February 1984) was a French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. He wrote many books on the common daily life. His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death.
Jan 11, 2018 · When Philippe Ariès focused his attention on the history of childhood during the late 1950s, he moved into what the historian Richard T. Vann described as “an almost virgin field.” Since then, the subject has established itself as a recognized branch of the discipline, settling in among related areas such as the histories of education ...
Philippe Ariès. Anastasia Ulanowicz, University of Pittsburgh. Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (1960) is one of the most influential—and divisive—histories of childhood ever written.
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May 29, 2018 · Learn about Philippe Ariès, a French historical demographer and pioneer of collective mentalities. He studied the history of childhood, family, death, and private life in the Western world.
Nov 11, 2021 · This commentary focuses on Ariés conceptualisations with a detailed focus on his treatise Centuries of Childhood ( Ariés, 1962 ). Uncovering the history of mentalities spanning over several centuries, Ariés reveals trends and transformations unfolding over long durations.
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Though an agronomic researcher by profession, Philippe Ariès avocationally studied the evolution of social attitudes, a hobby that brought him international renown. For his research on social attitudes, Aries developed a system of demographic study based on emotions and reactions to birth and death.
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Sep 13, 2002 · Almost single-handedly, Philippe Ariès, in his influential book, Centuries of Childhood (Ariès, 1962), made the reading public aware that conceptions of childhood have varied across the centuries. The very notion of a child, we now realize, is both historically and culturally conditioned.
