The story of Woodchester Abbey in Gloucestershire, England, is one of change, for in 1468 the Abbot is dying. Here in the details of the monastic life, in the politics of the abbatical election, in the personal lives of the monks, in the training for liturgy, Mass, praise and prayer, one senses the rise of heresy and the doom of orthodoxy. History comes alive once again for an audience nourished by Duggan, Prescott, Treece and others.