Word: gatherum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romantics in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is an anxious longing to put everything connected with the Middle Ages on view, no matter how slight its aesthetic import. One half-expects to find Piers Plowman's left clog in the next vitrine. It is a gigantic, semidigestible omnium-gatherum, and the visitor needs time and shoe leather to deal with...