“Humanism and the Role of Women in the Fifteenth Century in Relation to Die Denkwürdigkeiten der Helene Kottannerin (1439-1440)”

Authors

Colter Kennedy, Brigham Young University
Dr. Robert McFarland, Brigham Young University

Keywords

role of women, Die Denkwürdigkeiten der Helene Kottannerin, The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

When I first started at BYU I was approached by Prof. Robert McFarland about studying the relatively unknown text, Die Denkwürdigkeiten der Helene Kottannerin (The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner) to fulfill requirements for his class covering Cultural History of Germany. Eventually this assignment grew under his supervision to an ORCA project, a conference paper, and an honors Thesis. Originally I began researching the feminist aspect of the text and how it was far more progressive than any other text written by a woman for its time. The scope of my study of this text has grown immensely to show how it is a forerunner to the development of humanistic philosophy in the northern renaissance.

Recommended Citation

Kennedy, Colter and McFarland, Dr. Robert (2013) "“Humanism and the Role of Women in the Fifteenth Century in Relation to Die Denkwürdigkeiten der Helene Kottannerin (1439-1440)”," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 843.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/843