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	Beneath the Surface: World War I Submarine Warfare from Robert M. Grant Collection Robert M. Grant, Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Divinity School, maintained an interest in submarines throughout his career. This exhibition, which may surface as a surprise to some, is drawn from Professor Grant's research collection, and is one of a series of exhibits highlighting the breadth and variety of the University of Chicago faculty's private collections.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — May 31, 1988	Subjects European History Military & Naval Sciences
	A Collector's Churchill This exhibition is one of a series based on faculty book collections. The exhibit provides a fresh look at the public career of Winston Churchill through the eyes of James H. Lorie, a prolific collector of Churchilliana.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1981	Subjects European History
	The Dreyfus Affair: In the Public Eye Almost one-hundred years after it captured worldwide attention and threatened to topple the government of the Third Republic of France, the Dreyfus Affair continues to evoke strong response. The exhibit explores contemporary popular perceptions of the affair through these media in examples drawn from the Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — March 1, 1989	Subjects European History Jewish Studies
	The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit priest, was called to Rome as Professor of Mathematics at the Roman College in 1635, two years after Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Roman Inquisition. Kircher was also a consummate exploiter of the power of the printed book, as this exhibition illustrates through first and early editions of his works and related materials.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — April 1, 2000	Subjects European History
	The Eighteenth Century Views of the Past This exhibition includes historiographical and antiquarian works in the fields of history, literature, art, music, and science, and illustrates the 18th century's preoccupation with its own past as a way to understand the present.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1978	Subjects European History
	En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I En Guerre will offer a fresh examination of World War I through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 14 — Jan. 2, 2015 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History Art
	The Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica: A Selection Exhibited at the Joseph Regenstein Library This exhibition features 126 items from the Rosenberger Collection, arranged in three sections that correspond to emphases in the collection: Pre-Emancipation, 1200-1777; The Enlightenment and Emancipation, 16656-1858; and The Modern World, 1840-1940.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 31, 1976	Subjects Jewish Studies European History American History
	Mirror of Marvels: Images of Antiquity in Renaissance Rome This exhibition traces the varied responses of sixteenth-century scholars as they recovered, reconstructed and resurrected the "half-buried marvels" of Rome.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — Sept. 1, 1988	Subjects European History
	My Budapest: Portrait of a European City Celebrating Budapest and Hungary as a significant part of continental culture and history, the exhibit is drawn from Louis Szathmary's renowned Hungarian collection of over 15,000 volumes, featuring books, artifacts, and documents.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 1 — Oct. 1, 1989	Subjects European History
	The Napoleonic Sanhedrin: 1807-1808 On 6 October 1806 a body appointed by Napoleon and known as the assembly of Jewish Notables invited members of the Jewish communities of Europe to participate in a "Sanhedrin." This exhibition presents the event through archival materials from the Napoleonic government and from the court itself.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 1 — Jan. 1, 1987	Subjects Jewish Studies European History
	On the Edge: Medieval Margins and the Margins of Academic Life This exhibition explores the symmetry between medieval margins and the modern margins of academic life.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 19 — Sept. 10, 2012 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art European History History of Print
	Recipes for Domesticity: Cookery, Household Management, and the Notion of Expertise This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Rare Books Collection, provides a sampling of European and American cookbooks and domestic manuals from court chefs of the 15th century to cooking icons of the 20th century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 22 — July 13, 2013 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History American History
	Scholars and Scholarship of the Renaissance: An Exhibition from the Collections of the University of Chicago Library As part of a year-long celebration of the Renaissance, this exhibition features selections from the Library's collections that exemplify "a few of the many varieties of scholarly pursuits that marked the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1964	Subjects European History
	Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection, The: Sources on English Society, 1250-1700 The Bacon collection allows one to view the development of English rural and agricultural society in considerable detail.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center April 1 — June 30, 1972	Subjects European History
	Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae With over 900 engravings of views and monuments of Classical and early modern Rome, the selections in this exhibition reveal the nature and variety of the University of Chicago's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae collection, and the rarity and quality of individual prints.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1966	Subjects European History Art Architecture
	Tensions in Renaissance Cities Rome, Florence, Geneva, London; Renaissance cities used art and literature to express their growing pains. After the Black Death, recovering cities developed in a geography of interdependence, connected by fluctuating kingdoms, mercantile networks, and the newborn printing press. This exhibit charts the tensions of capitals from Venice to Mexico City as they looked eastward, westward, backward toward antiquity, or upward to the celestial geographies offered by magic, science, and theology.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 27 — June 9, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects European History
	Tradition of Aquinas and Bonaventure, The: Text and Commentary during Seven Centuries This exhibition illustrates the influence of Aquinas and Bonaventure during the 700 years following their deaths, focusing on texts and commentary, with the history of the texts presented in manuscripts, incunabula, and more recent scholarly editions.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1974	Subjects Religion European History
	The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae This exhibition examines the publishing history of Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae through several generations of printmakers and print publishers, showcasing the Library's Speculum Romanae Magnificantiae Digital Collection.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 29, 2008	Subjects European History Art