视频简介
Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。凭借“绯闻女孩”崭露头角的索菲亚·布莱克·迪莉娅的银幕处女作，讲述美丽少女刺客复仇之战。牛津大学女学生米娅的家遭三人暴力入侵，父母被杀害。米娅和 10岁的妹妹逃离，受到英国情报机构MI6的保护。原来因为母亲过去的秘密，导致2人被阿富汗恐怖组织剥夺了生命。为了保护妹妹，为父母报仇，米娅决定学 习实战技巧，成为专业佣兵，前往阿富汗……。十九世纪中国，英帝国主义分子企图以鸦片贸易、茶贸易分裂西藏，英国茶叶公司为占领西藏市场更是不惜挑起流血事件。当朝清政府腐败无能，以慈禧太后为首的腐朽势力更是暗中指使云贵总督巴图鲁破坏云南边茶进藏企图将西藏茶叶市场拱手相让。在这生死存亡关头，思茅同知、普洱知府段子苴挺身而出，化解民族隔阂与纷争，为捍卫边茶贸易与巴图鲁及其儿子巴雅尔斗智斗勇。他联合普洱勐撒宣抚司掌印夫人南波娅及世代以边茶贸易为生的普洱茶山百姓，在恋人世仇巴图鲁女儿乌云珠帮助下冲破重重阻挠，将西藏急需的五万担茶叶送到雪域高原，彻底粉碎分裂阴谋，重振边茶进藏贸易。西藏大德高僧阿克丹珠为感茶叶惠泽在祈祷大法会上专做《茶颂》流传于世。。
