Aries/Western Attitudes Toward Death, 2. One's Own Death

In the second chapter we shall encounter diachrony. What changes occurring during the Middle Ages, beginning approximately with the twelfth century, began to modify the a-chronic attitude toward death, and what can be the meaning of these changes? This idea appeared in the twelfth century and reveals the importance given throughout the entire modern period to the self, to one's own existence, and can be expressed by another phrase, la mort de soi, one's own death.