Heritage Open Day: A talk exploring the way people lived in the Middle Ages. Many historians will tell you that the fourteenth century was the worst one of the last two thousand years. Life could indeed be nasty, brutish and short. But is was also a period of great learning and achievement - and not as dark as you might think. Join churchwarden Keith Walton for a talk to find out more about what people did know and understand as the Middle Ages progressed,, and how this impacted on daily life in a city like Exeter.