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impressment
(redirected from pressgang)

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Eugene Bianchi searches the tradition for more democratic models although his praise for Pachomian monasticism over against the Benedictine model strikes me as odd; Pachomian monasteries seem to me to have been little more than pious pressgangs while Benedictine monasticism has a strong democratic mechanism built into its ethos.
Dickens gives us not only Oliver Twist but Fagin, the criminal ringleader who pressgangs Oliver into service.
Eugene Bianchi searches the tradition for more democratic models although his praise for Pachomian monasticism over against the Benedictine model strikes me as odd; Pachomian monasteries seem to me to have been little more than pious pressgangs while Benedictine monasticism has a strong democratic mechanism built into its ethos.
 
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