Brigitte Leonie Isabelle Meijns is a Belgian medievalist, professor of Medieval History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
[1][2] Meijns studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Poitiers, obtaining her doctorate from Leuven in 1999 with a thesis on the reform of chapters of canons regular in the 11th and 12th centuries.
[3] Her work examines the role of collegiate churches in the medieval Low Countries,[4][5][6][7] the local impact of Gregorian Reform,[8][9] and the uses and exchange of relics.
[10][11] She was a visiting scholar at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris in 2008,[12] and at the Institute for Advanced Study in spring 2009.
[1] She currently teaches History of the Middle Ages and Religion in the Middle Ages (and formerly Post-Classical Latin Historical Texts) at KU Leuven.