Robert Marie Joseph "Rob" Meens (born 14 August 1959,

Heerlen Heerlen (; ) is a city and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the f ...

) is a Dutch historian and professor at

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. Meens got his Ph.D. from

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in 1994. He was a fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at

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in 1997-1998, and taught at the

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before an appointment as professor in history in Utrecht. A specialist in medieval religious culture, he is the co-editor, with

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, of a collection of essays on the

Bobbio Missal The Bobbio Missal (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 13246) is a seventh-century Christian liturgical codex that probably originated in France. The Missal contains a lectionary, a sacramentary and some Biblical canon, canonical material ...

, a collection "said to define a new orthodoxy on the subject". He has researched

penitentials A penitential is a book or set of church rules concerning the Christian sacrament of penance, used for regular private confession with a confessor-priest, a "new manner of reconciliation with God" that was promoted by Celtic monks in Ireland in ...

with a research group at Utrecht (a continuation of the important work done by Raymund Kottje) since the early 2000s, and his ''Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200'' was published in 2014 by Cambridge UP.

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