Rob Meens
Dep. History and Art History - Middle Ages
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Rob Meens is especially interested in cultural history in the broad sense of the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on the years 500-1000. A few themes that emerge in his research are: perceptions of purity and impurity, violence and reconciliation, the human body, food and drink, paganism and magic, religion and ritual, confession and fine. Together with Ludger Körntgen (Mainz) he is leading a project on the issue of biechhandbooks from the early Middle Ages.
Research Interest
Origins and Impacts of Institutions
Publications
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Rose, HGE & Meens, RMJ (2016). Introduction. In Maximilian Diesenberger, Rob Meens & Els Rose (Ed.), The Prague Sacramentary - Culture, Religion and Politics in Late Eighth Century Bavaria (pp. 1-10) (10 p.). Turnhout: Brepols.
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Meens, RMJ (2016). Conclusion: Early medieval priests - some further thoughts. In Carine van Rhijn & Steffen Patzold (Ed.), Men in the Middle - Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 222-228). Berlin: the Gruyter.
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Goosmann, FCW & Meens, RMJ (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 and Carine van Rhijn (Ed.), Religious Franks - Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honor of Mayke de Jong (pp. 296-313) (18 p.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
