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Welcome to a new series covering searching tips. This new feature will cover new ways to search, errors you may come across, troubleshooting, and other tips and tricks about library resources and content.
Occasionally when browsing for articles through the library you'll encounter Error 431: Request Header Fields Too Large and won't be able to access any articles.
HTTP Error 431 means that the server you're trying to reach can't process your request because the headers coming from your computer, such as browser cookies, are too large to process.
In layman's terms you can think of it like trying to send a letter in an envelope that's too stuffed to fit in the mailbox. The website you're trying to visit responds with the error that can be translated to "This is too much for me to handle."
You can usually fix this error in a few ways:
On campus and need a place to have a Zoom meeting? Need a quiet spot to have a virtual interview?The library has you covered!
We offer a closed-door individual room equipped with a camera, microphone, and speaker where you can conduct virtual meetings or interviews. You can also plug in your own headphones.
The Virtual Meeting Room is room 3.032, located on the 3rd Floor, just inside the lobby next to the bartop study tables. It's available by reservation only, Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm.
To have the room unlocked for you contact library staff through the kiosk or by calling 210-567-2440.
Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval HealthSara Ritchey
Via publisher Cornell University Press, Acts of Care by Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices.
Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval healthcare has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of their activities as religious rather than medical.
The sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world, as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns.
Through its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare.
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