Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general public during the Medieval era.

In 2019, the fragile manuscript was discovered in an unlikely place in a Cambridge library – tucked in as ... as they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes, and fewer than 40 copies ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.