Rob Meens
Biographic Data
| ID | 5682774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Meens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Meens |
| SIGNATURE | MEENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1605-6818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Middeleeuwen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Susan R. Kramer. Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West
Susan R. Kramer’s Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West follows the lead set out by Colin Morris with his influential thesis about the discovery of the individual in the twelfth century (The Discovery of the Individual, 1050–1200 [1972]). That discovery was in Morris’s eyes closely related to the emergence of individual confession, which was institutionalized in the famous decree Omnis utriusque sexus, promulgated at the Four…
Penitential Varieties
It is tempting to think of ‘penitence’ as one thing within Christian culture, but this chapter demonstrates that it involved various different practices, feelings, thoughts, and ideas in a variety of different contexts for a variety of different purposes. The chapter focuses on a series of specific moments in which penitential acts occurred, from late antiquity to the later middle ages; and in so doing, demonstrates that ‘penitence’ was tremendou…
Shaping Church Law Around the Year 1000. The Decretum of Burchard of Worms - By Greta Austin
Do ut des. Gift Giving, Memoria, and Conflict Management in the Medieval Low Countries
Clavis Canonum
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Sanctuary, Penance, and Dispute Settlement under Charlemagne
Penitential questions
Penitentials and the practice of penance in the tenth and eleventh centuries
This article reconsiders the function of penitentials in the tenth and eleventh centuries; were they used mainly to support priests in the administration of penance, or rather as legal texts in either the episcopal court or in the schoolroom? Through an examination of the evidence of the manuscripts from across Europe, it shows that whilst few new penitentials were composed, many older ones, especially those which gave their authorities, continue…
Politics, mirrors of princes and the Bible
Ritual Purity and the Influence of Gregory the Great in the Early Middle Ages
Unity and diversity form a theme which Gregory the Great addressed in his famous set of answers to Augustine of Canterbury. Augustine had asked the Pope: Even though the faith is one, are there varying customs in the churches? and is there one form of mass in the Holy Roman Church and another in the Churches of Gaul? To this, the Pope replied: My brother, you know the customs of the Roman Church in which, of course, you were brought up. But it is…
Pollution in the early middle ages
Children and Confession in the Early Middle Ages
The handbooks for confessors known as penitentials are, I shall argue, an important source for our knowledge of early medieval attitudes on the part of churchmen and others towards children. These texts, basically lists of sins with the prescription of an appropriate penance for each iniquity, can be said to reflect widespread practices and ideas. They originated in the Irish and British Churches in the sixth century and spread from there over al…
A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England
As is well known, Bede gives a biased account of the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. He highlights the role of the Roman mission, initiated by Pope Gregory the Great and led by Augustine, the first bishop of Canterbury. Almost as important in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is the effort made by the Irish to Christianize Northumbria. The Frankish contribution to the missionary process, however, is not mentioned at all, though Franki…
The Penitential of Finnian and the Textual Witness of the Paenitentiale Vindobonense "B"
Politics, mirrors of princes and the Bible
Pollution in the early middle ages
Sanctuary, Penance, and Dispute Settlement under Charlemagne
A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England
As is well known, Bede gives a biased account of the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. He highlights the role of the Roman mission, initiated by Pope Gregory the Great and led by Augustine, the first bishop of Canterbury. Almost as important in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is the effort made by the Irish to Christianize Northumbria. The Frankish contribution to the missionary process, however, is not mentioned at all, though Franki…
The Penitential of Finnian and the Textual Witness of the Paenitentiale Vindobonense "B"
Children and Confession in the Early Middle Ages
The handbooks for confessors known as penitentials are, I shall argue, an important source for our knowledge of early medieval attitudes on the part of churchmen and others towards children. These texts, basically lists of sins with the prescription of an appropriate penance for each iniquity, can be said to reflect widespread practices and ideas. They originated in the Irish and British Churches in the sixth century and spread from there over al…
A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England
As is well known, Bede gives a biased account of the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. He highlights the role of the Roman mission, initiated by Pope Gregory the Great and led by Augustine, the first bishop of Canterbury. Almost as important in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is the effort made by the Irish to Christianize Northumbria. The Frankish contribution to the missionary process, however, is not mentioned at all, though Franki…
Pollution in the early middle ages
Ritual Purity and the Influence of Gregory the Great in the Early Middle Ages
Unity and diversity form a theme which Gregory the Great addressed in his famous set of answers to Augustine of Canterbury. Augustine had asked the Pope: Even though the faith is one, are there varying customs in the churches? and is there one form of mass in the Holy Roman Church and another in the Churches of Gaul? To this, the Pope replied: My brother, you know the customs of the Roman Church in which, of course, you were brought up. But it is…
Politics, mirrors of princes and the Bible
Penitential questions
Penitentials and the practice of penance in the tenth and eleventh centuries
This article reconsiders the function of penitentials in the tenth and eleventh centuries; were they used mainly to support priests in the administration of penance, or rather as legal texts in either the episcopal court or in the schoolroom? Through an examination of the evidence of the manuscripts from across Europe, it shows that whilst few new penitentials were composed, many older ones, especially those which gave their authorities, continue…
Sanctuary, Penance, and Dispute Settlement under Charlemagne
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Do ut des. Gift Giving, Memoria, and Conflict Management in the Medieval Low Countries
Clavis Canonum
Shaping Church Law Around the Year 1000. The Decretum of Burchard of Worms - By Greta Austin
Penitential Varieties
It is tempting to think of ‘penitence’ as one thing within Christian culture, but this chapter demonstrates that it involved various different practices, feelings, thoughts, and ideas in a variety of different contexts for a variety of different purposes. The chapter focuses on a series of specific moments in which penitential acts occurred, from late antiquity to the later middle ages; and in so doing, demonstrates that ‘penitence’ was tremendou…
Susan R. Kramer. Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West
Susan R. Kramer’s Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West follows the lead set out by Colin Morris with his influential thesis about the discovery of the individual in the twelfth century (The Discovery of the Individual, 1050–1200 [1972]). That discovery was in Morris’s eyes closely related to the emergence of individual confession, which was institutionalized in the famous decree Omnis utriusque sexus, promulgated at the Four…
Middeleeuwen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
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