Background

Benno P. Lowe was born on December 17, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is the son of Benno P. and Peggy C. (Moore) Lowe.

Education

Lowe graduated from Western Maryland College with a bachelor's degree (with honours) in 1978. He then received his master's degree from the University of Missouri—Columbia in 1980 and his doctorate from Georgetown University in 1990.

Career

Lowe started his career as an assistant professor of history at Barry University in 1990. Three years later, he joined Florida Atlantic University, where he first worked as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor and now as a professor of history of the department.

Currently, Lowe also reviews books for a variety of scholarly journals, including History: Journal of the Historical Association Sixteenth Century Journal, The Historian, Literature and History, Church History, and the Catholic Historical Review.

Lowe's most recent book, Commonwealth and the English Reformation: Protestantism and Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 1483-1560 (Ashgate, 2010), examines the initial process of reform as carried out by local leaders in the city of Gloucester and the surrounding area. Other recent publications include "A Short Reformation? A Case for Recalculating the Chronology of Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century England," Anglican & Episcopal History 82 (2013): 409-47, the articles "Peace," "Peace and Truce of God," and "Just War - Just Motive," in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology (Oxford University Press, 2010, "Dulce bellum inexpertis: Stoicism, Erasmian Humanism and the Original of the Western Peace Ethic," (ATINER, 2005); "Teaching in the 'Schole of Christ': Learning, Law and Love in Early Lollard Pacifism," Catholic Historical Review 90 (2004): 405-38; "Peace," in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Scribners, 2004), vol. 4, pp. 1724-27; 5 articles in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004); 2 articles in the Reader's Guide to British History (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003); and "A War to End all Wars? Protestant Subversions of Henry VIII's Final Scottish and French Campaigns (1542-45)," in Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Co-existence in Early Modern England (Brepols, 2001). He has also published Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Thought-1340-1560 (Penn State Press, 1997).

Achievements

• Benno Lowe is best known as the historian, who specializes in early modern European history, with particular attention to the mid-Tudor period. His research focuses on the religion, social ideology and political culture of England during the early Reformation (c.1530-60).
  
  Lowe is also the recipient of several grants, including one from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a scholar-in-residence at Duke University.

Works

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  • Ideals of Feminine Beauty: Philosophical, Social, and Cultural Dimensions

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    1994
  • Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas

    (In this book Ben Lowe examines the developing language of...)

    1997
  • The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 1998

Membership

Lowe is a member of the International Society for Intellectual History, North American Conference on British Studies, American Historical Association, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Peace History Society, Society for Reformation Research, Conference on Faith and History, Women in the Renaissance Society and Church of England Record Society.

Lowe is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Connections

Father:

Benno P. Lowe

Mother:

Peggy C. (Moore) Lowe