The Book of Common Prayer : a biography

Short Review: Excellent history of the book of common prayer. Jacobs walks the reader through its creation, it major controversies and revisions and then how others outside of England adapted their own Books of Common Prayer. What was most interesting to me was how the book of common prayer was designed to be a unifying document for the whole of the Church of England but from the very beginning the minor differences were used to encourage factions. And how because of those factions it is essentially impossible to update from the 1662 version because no one is happy with the updates.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/common-prayer/