Education
Meens got his Doctor of Philosophy from Nijmegen University in 1993.
Meens got his Doctor of Philosophy from Nijmegen University in 1993.
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. 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 is to be published in 2014 by Cambridge Uttar Pradesh.