BUFFALO, N.Y. – The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, ...

Social media thrives on sensational history, and few stories have travelled as far as the claim that medieval European women routinely poisoned their husbands every morning and gave them an antidote ...

From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at the in the far northeast of England, the scene looks innocent enough. A sapphire green English lawn slopes gently downward, toward traditional, ...