Rob Meens, Date of Birth

Rob Meens

Dutch historian

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1959

Profession: historian

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Robert Marie Joseph "Rob" Meens (born 14 August 1959, Heerlen) 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, and taught at the University of Vienna before an appointment as professor in history in Utrecht.A specialist in medieval religious culture, he is the co-editor, with Yitzhak Hen, of a collection of essays on the Bobbio Missal, a collection "said to define a new orthodoxy on the subject".
He has researched penitentials 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.