Biography
Peter Loewen specializes in medieval Latin and vernacular song, particularly as it was used in religious drama and Franciscan preaching. At Rice University, Peter teaches courses on medieval and Renaissance music, and on medievalism, and has served as director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program. Peter has received grants from the DAAD, UCross Foundation Artists’ Residency, and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. In 2022 the American Musicological Society awarded him the H. Colin Slim Award for his article titled “A Rudder for the Ship of Fools?: Bosch’s Franciscans as Jongleurs of God.” He is the author of Music in Early Franciscan Thought, and co-edited Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture. Other articles appear in Early Music History, The Oxford Handbook of Mary Magdalene, The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen, Grove Music Online, Speculum, Comparative Drama, Franciscan Studies, and The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-C. 1350). His book in progress is titled Friar William of Herebert: Songs from the Early Franciscan Missions.