{"id":5469,"date":"2025-10-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:44:40","slug":"medieval-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2025\/10\/13\/medieval-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval autism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>We share more news of a recent publication this week, albeit one quite different in focus to Laura Burnett&#8217;s recent and fascinating exploration of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2025\/10\/06\/head-to-toe-heraldry\/\">horse heraldry<\/a>. Edward Mills, who runs the Centre blog (and, indeed, writes the editorial introductions), talks about the conclusion of a research project that has had a very personal resonance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The strands really started to come together about two and a half years ago. In early 2023, I&#8217;d been working at Exeter for a few years post-PhD, and had become increasingly involved in supporting the University of Exeter&#8217;s work with autistic students. Having received a late diagnosis of autism myself &#8212; something I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/edward-mills.co.uk\/2017\/04\/17\/my-experience-with-aspergers-studying-socialising-and-starting-to-speak-up\/\">written about<\/a> in more detail <a href=\"https:\/\/edward-mills.co.uk\/2017\/04\/26\/this-guy-wrote-a-blog-post-about-aspergers-what-happened-next-will-shock-you\/\">elsewhere<\/a> &#8212; I found myself very keen to ensure that incoming students (in all subjects) were supported in confronting the challenges (and opportunities) that come with attending university while neurodivergent. Lo and behold: Edward explaining the interlocking sources of student support, <a href=\"https:\/\/wonkhe.com\/blogs\/supporting-neurodiverse-students-through-the-transition-to-university\/\">with reference to the Muppets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As some readers of this blog may know, I had also, by that point in 2023, become very keen on talking about medieval studies to literally anything that moved. It was inevitable, then, that I&#8217;d end up trying to bring these two interests together, and thinking about &#8216;medieval autism&#8217;: whether we can (or indeed should) draw on a concept like &#8216;neurodivergence&#8217; when working with premodern sources, for whose writers such terminology would have been alien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting talk is available online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P9_Lh_kUGE0\">in video form<\/a>, as it was delivered the wonderfully-named &#8216;special interest group&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/reasongroup.org\">REsearchers and Students On Neurodiversity<\/a> (REaSON). Following an incredibly rewarding collaborative process, I&#8217;m also delighted to be able to say that a revised version of it is also now out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9781501517341-010\/html\">open-access chapter form<\/a>, as part of the collection <em>Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists<\/em>. My chapter&#8217;s in great company, and I&#8217;m enormously grateful to have been able to be a small part of an intervention that&#8217;s both urgently needed and exceptionally well put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To summarise the chapter in a single sentence, I try to make the case that neurodivergence can indeed be a viable and illuminating lens through which to examine medieval sources, particularly in the literary sphere, and that considering certain behaviours as &#8216;autism-like&#8217; (modelled on Judith Bennett&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3704629\">lesbian-like<\/a>&#8216;) might offer one way out of the methodological quagmire in which such discussions often get bogged down. Surely, after all, there&#8217;s more to Lancelot&#8217;s intense reaction to not finding his friend, the giant Galehot, at Sorelois than simply <em>folie<\/em> (&#8216;madness&#8217;)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" data-id=\"5491\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2025\/10\/Capture-decran-2025-10-06-a-15.00.46-1024x694.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2025\/10\/Capture-decran-2025-10-06-a-15.00.46-1024x694.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2025\/10\/Capture-decran-2025-10-06-a-15.00.46-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2025\/10\/Capture-decran-2025-10-06-a-15.00.46-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2025\/10\/Capture-decran-2025-10-06-a-15.00.46.png 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lancelot (right) at Sorelois. Paris, BnF, MS fran\u00e7ais 111, fol. 120r.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m very much aware that this sort of exploratory, tentative work won&#8217;t meet with universal approval. There are important underlying principles in the study of &#8216;medieval autism&#8217; that would benefit from more perspectives: how large is the corpus of medieval individuals, in literature or elsewhere, who might be associated with &#8216;autism-like&#8217; behaviour? More fundamentally, what else might we as researchers &#8216;do&#8217; with the idea that people displaying autism-like traits (as we understand them today) almost certainly existed in the Middle Ages? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s entirely possible that these questions might eventually derail the concept of &#8216;autism-like&#8217; entirely, and I&#8217;d be lying if I said I wasn&#8217;t nervous about what reviews might say about the chapter in due course. Nevertheless, I am (rightly or otherwise) pleased to have been able to make some contribution, however small, to a little-explored but fascinating field. While waiting for reviews to come in, meanwhile, I&#8217;ll be delighted if my chapter manages to raise more questions than it answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can &#8211; and should &#8211; we talk about &#8216;medieval autism&#8217;? 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