Philippe Ariès Series

Philippe Ariès was a French historian who focused on the history of family and childhood, and notably on the transformation of attitudes towards death in the Western world. He described himself as a "right-wing anarchist." His work, which often explored daily life, was at times better known in the English-speaking world than in France itself. He is recognized for acknowledging childhood as a social construction and for founding the history of childhood as a serious field of study. He is also remembered for his research into the history of attitudes toward death and dying, which he also viewed as social constructs.