Brigitte Leonie Isabelle Meijns is a Belgian

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, professor of Medieval History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Meijns studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the

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, obtaining her doctorate from Leuven in 1999 with a thesis on the reform of

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in the 11th and 12th centuries. This was published as ''Aken of Jeruzalem? Het ontstaan en de hervorming van de kanonikale instellingen in Vlaanderen tot circa 1155'' (Leuven, 2000). Her work examines the role of

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es in the medieval

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, the local impact of

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, and the uses and exchange of relics.B. Meijns, "England and Flanders around 1066: The Cult of the English Saints Oswald and Lewinna in the Comital Abbey of Bergues", ''Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIX: Proceedings of the Battle conference 2016'', edited by E. van Houts (Woodbridge, 2017), pp. 128-149. She was a visiting scholar at the

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in Paris in 2008, and at the

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in spring 2009. She currently teaches ''History of the Middle Ages'' and ''Religion in the Middle Ages'' (and formerly ''Post-Classical Latin Historical Texts'') at KU Leuven.

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