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Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury (2024)
Journal Article
PARKES, H. (in press). Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury. Journal of Musicology,

The eleventh-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 38 is celebrated for its remarkable monastic horologium, or star timetable, which uses the stars to determine the timing of the Night Office liturgy. Recent scholarship has confirmed... Read More about Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS. Bodl. 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury.

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/arts12050188

The 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

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.12389

Variously 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 Publishers

This 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/s0261127918000050

Prior 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.2017.70.1.1

One 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.

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000. By Jesse D. Billett. Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7. London: Henry Bradshaw Society. 2014. xxii + 463 pp.; 2 b/w plates. £60. ISBN 978 1 90749 728 5. (2017)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2017). The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000. By Jesse D. Billett. Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7. London: Henry Bradshaw Society. 2014. xxii + 463 pp.; 2 b/w plates. £60. ISBN 978 1 90749 728 5. Early Medieval Europe, 25(1), 117-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12191

The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050 (2015)
Book
Parkes, H. (2015). The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316014752

This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest... Read More about The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050.

Questioning the Authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontifical Romano-Germanique (2015)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2015). Questioning the Authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontifical Romano-Germanique. In Understanding Medieval Liturgy: Essays in Interpretation, (75-101). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing

Vogel and Elze tended to defer to Andrieu's wisdom on most matters of interpretation, giving an outward impression of absolute consensus when inwardly they may have felt unqualified to disagree. And as Andrieu's remarkable hypotheses have been replic... Read More about Questioning the Authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontifical Romano-Germanique.

St Edmund Between Liturgy and Hagiography (2014)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2014). St Edmund Between Liturgy and Hagiography. In Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, (131-59). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer