Henry Parkes
Gonville & Caius College
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Henry Parkes is a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College. He read Music at Christ Church, Oxford, before moving to Cambridge, where he is currently completing a doctoral thesis on medieval liturgy under the supervision of Susan Rankin.
His research deals broadly with the interaction of religious ritual and book-making in early medieval Europe, with a particular interest in the musical, institutional, and political history of tenth-century Germany. Among the many strands of his current work is a thorough reconsideration of the liturgical phenomenon known as the Pontifical Romano-Germanique, an amorphous combination of texts for and about the liturgy which circulated widely in eleventh-century Europe.
Henry is a council member of the Henry Bradshaw Society, which exists to advance liturgical study, and is a member of the interdisciplinary AHRC Interpreting Medieval Liturgy Network. He is also an active orchestral keyboardist, with recent performances on the South Bank and at the BBC Proms.