I responded to a similar question a few months ago, if you're interested:

• How did people in the Middle Ages deal with Down’s Syndrome and autism?

You might also be interested in Irina Metzler's new book, Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. She's absolutely one of the, if not the, leading scholar of disability in the Middle Ages.

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