Musikalische und liturgische Kreativität in der Umgebung Heinrichs II
(2024)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2024). Musikalische und liturgische Kreativität in der Umgebung Heinrichs II. In C. Rolker (Ed.), Kaiser Heinrich II.: Herrschaft, Handschriften und Heiligkeit im Mittelalter (189-210). University of Bamberg Press. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-92716
Outputs (17)
The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance (2023)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2023). The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance. Arts, 12(5), Article 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050188The medieval cult of Ste Foy inspired several sets of liturgical chants, or historiae, including at least two that were probably made for use at Conques in the early eleventh century. Whilst it is widely understood that historia chants belonged withi... Read More about The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance.
Towards a Definition of the “Romano-German Pontifical” and Back (2023)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2023). Towards a Definition of the “Romano-German Pontifical” and Back. In H. Buchinger, & A. Irving (Eds.), On the Typology of Liturgical Books from the Western Middle Ages / Zur Typologie liturgischer Bücher des westlichen Mittelalters (275-301). Münster: Aschendorff Verlag
Theology and teleology in the festal Night Office: what performance directions reveal about the design and experience of historiae (2021)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2021). Theology and teleology in the festal Night Office: what performance directions reveal about the design and experience of historiae. In L. Zanoncelli, M. Gozzi, S. Rankin, R. Hankeln, & D. Hiley (Eds.), Historiae: Liturgical Chant for Offices of the Saints in the Middle Ages (33-55). Venice: Fondazione Levi
Musical Portraits of St Guthlac (2020)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2020). Musical Portraits of St Guthlac. In Guthlac: Crowland's Saint (277-297). Donington: Shaun Tyas
Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’ (2020)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2020). Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’. Early Medieval Europe, 28(1), 104-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12389Variously acclaimed as coepiscopus, saint and Mönchskönig, Henry II of Germany has always had a reputation as a quasi‐religious figure. This article goes a step further, appending to his résumé the creation of the wildly successful liturgical traditi... Read More about Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’.
Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici (2019)
Book
Augiensis, B. (2019). H. Parkes (Ed.), Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici. Turnhout: Brepols PublishersThis volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities – such as how to find the correct date fo... Read More about Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici.
Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary (2018)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2018). Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary. Early Music History, 37, 183-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127918000050Prior to the famous Hartker Antiphoner (Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 390/391), copied in Sankt Gallen c. 1000, there survives no complete, fully-notated witness to the Romano-Frankish chant repertory for the Office. Scholars have long known a... Read More about Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary.
Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant (2017)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2017). Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 70(1), 1-60. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2017.70.1.1One of the paradoxes of Gregorian chant is the way in which written sources become ever more plentiful across the Middle Ages while commentaries on its cultural and intellectual status take the opposite direction, becoming rare after the ninth centur... Read More about Wild Strawberries from Reichenau: Ruminations on Authority and Difference in Eleventh-Century “Gregorian” Chant.
Cantor or canonicus? In Search of Musicians and Liturgists in Eleventh-Century Constance (2017)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2017). Cantor or canonicus? In Search of Musicians and Liturgists in Eleventh-Century Constance. In Medieval Cantors and their Craft: Music, Liturgy and the Shaping of History, 800–1500, (103-124). York: York Medieval Press