Building up the Waste Places
The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the Post-Reformation Church of England
by Peter Anson
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
276 Pages, 7.00 x 10.00 x 0.55 in
- Paperback
- 9781498217552
- Published: December 2014
$36.00 / £32.00 / AU$49.00
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Peter F. Anson (1889-1975) was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island from 1910 to 1924, and one of the twenty monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay life at the age of thirty-five, he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his thirty-six published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later on became a founding member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1969, he retired to his former island-home as an eventide-borne, where halfway through his eighty-fourth year he is still busy with drawing, painting, and writing; having been given the rare status of a Reformed Cistercian choir-oblate.