Rob Meens
Department of History and Art History - Middle Ages
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Rob Meens is mainly interested in cultural history in a broad sense, with a particular emphasis on the period between 500 and 1000 AD. Some specific theme's discussed in his research are: views on purity and impurity, violence and reconciliation, the human body, eating and drinking, paganism and magic, religion and ritual, confession and penance. With Ludger Körntgen (Mainz) he leads a project that deals with editing early medieval handbooks for confessors.
Research Interest
Origins and Impacts of Institutions
Publications
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Rose, H.G.E. & Meens, R.M.J. (2016). Introduction. In Maximilian Diesenberger, Rob Meens & Els Rose (Eds.), The Prague Sacramentary - Culture, Religion and Politics in Late Eighth-century Bavaria (pp. 1-10) (10 p.). Turnhout: Brepols.
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Meens, R.M.J. (2016). Conclusion: Early medieval priests - some further thoughts. In Carine van Rhijn & Steffen Patzold (Eds.), Men in the Middle - Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 222-228). Berlin: de Gruyter.
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Goosmann, F.C.W. & Meens, R.M.J. (19.05.2016). A mirror of princes who opted out: Regino of Prüm and royal monastic conversion. In Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude & Carine van Rhijn (Eds.), Religious Franks - Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong (pp. 296-313) (18 p.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
