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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.

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’.

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