Les Rites de l'au-delà. Afrique du Nord Ascension: A Privileged Event for

Ascension: A Privileged Event for Monks

Ancient Coptic Monasteries

New revised and corrected edition

founded in 440

Les Rites de l'au-delà. Afrique du Nord Ascension: A Privileged Event forHumanity is defined by its relationship with death. Funeral rites are the trace of this essential relationship with the afterlife, which gives meaning to existence. Jean Pierre Mohen introduces us to them, in their richness, their variety, and sometimes their strangeness. From the Paleolithic to the beginnings of the Neolithic, via Egypt, Greece, ancient Rome, and even ancient China, to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; from Jericho to Easter