The Stowe Enigma: Decoding the Mystery
Brendan Coffey
The Stowe Missal is something of an enigma for the modern scholar. In attempting to decode this enigma, we discover that two avenues investigation open up before us. We can treat as exemplar a Celtic liturgical tradition, but are hampered in approach by fact lone example tradition. Alternatively, examine missal insular wider western tradition and see what has tell us about practice ninth-century Irish Church. This adopted article.
Irish Theological Quarterly