Rob Meens

Robert Marie Joseph "Rob" Meens (born 14 August 1959, Heerlen)[https://books.google.com/books?id=8J7z1Wk1C4YC&pg=PA581 Rob Meens CV] is a Dutch historian and professor at Utrecht University.

Meens got his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University in 1994. He was a fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in 1997-1998,{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/dav/people/past_fellows/|title=Davis Center, Princeton University, Past Fellows|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=22 August 2014}} and taught at the University of Vienna before an appointment as professor in history in Utrecht.{{cite web|url=http://pims.ca/research/bleblog/about-the-2011-workshop/about-the-participants/rob-means/|title=Rob Meens|publisher=Bonifatii et Lulli Epistolae Project|accessdate=22 August 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140822154446/http://pims.ca/research/bleblog/about-the-2011-workshop/about-the-participants/rob-means/|archivedate=22 August 2014}}

A specialist in medieval religious culture, he is the co-editor, with Yitzhak Hen, of a collection of essays on the Bobbio Missal,{{cite journal|last=Noble|first=Thomas F. X.|year=2006|title=Rev. of Hen, Meens, "The Bobbio Missal": Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul|journal=Church History|volume=7|issue=2|pages=414–15|doi=10.1017/S0009640700111400 |jstor=27644774}}{{cite journal|last=Paxton|first=Frederick S.|year=2006|title=Rev. of Hen, Meens, "The Bobbio Missal": Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul|journal=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology|volume=105|issue=2|pages=345–47|doi=10.2307/27712591 |jstor=27712591}} a collection "said to define a new orthodoxy on the subject".{{cite journal|last=Moreira|first=Isabel|year=2006|title=Rev. of Hen, Meens, "The Bobbio Missal": Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul|journal=Speculum|volume=81|issue=3|pages=860–61|jstor=20463870|doi=10.1017/s0038713400016110}} He has researched penitentials with a research group at Utrecht (a continuation of the important work done by Raymund Kottje{{cite book|last=Larson|first=Atria A.|title=Master of Penance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXjYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|year=2014|publisher=CUA|isbn=9780813221687|page=7}}) since the early 2000s,{{cite news|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2844/Archief/archief/article/detail/637394/2002/08/31/De-Middeleeuwen-van-het-volk.dhtml|title=De Middeleeuwen van het volk|last=Didde|first=René|date=31 August 2002|work=de Volkskrant|language=Dutch|accessdate=4 August 2014}} and his Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200 was published in 2014 by Cambridge UP.{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/european-history-450-1000/penance-medieval-europe-6001200|title=Penance Medieval Europe 600-1200|publisher=Cambridge UP|accessdate=4 August 2014}}