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）。李莲英（黎耀祥 饰）与安德海（曹永廉 饰）同被前朝老太监刘多生（钟景辉 饰）收为徒弟。数年后，李莲英只是景仁宫中侍奉待罪妃子婉太嫔（李诗韵 饰）的一名小太监，而安德海却为西宫太后慈禧（米雪 饰）身边的红人。御药房太监姚双喜（黄浩然 饰）因出宫探母一事得罪总管太监陈福（岳华 饰）的舅甥彭三顺（陈国邦 饰），险些丧命。幸被李莲英所救，两人结为挚友。太监彭三顺睚眦必报，此后处处为难李莲英。婉太嫔在太监陈福的挑唆下，想起自己皇儿死因的蹊跷之处。恭亲王（张国强 饰）不顾慈禧阻拦，一意孤行推行洋务运动。同治帝（梁烈唯 饰）年纪尚小，朝中虎视眈眈。清末的紫禁城内忧外患。李莲英如何全身而退，成为一代大太监？ 本剧为2012年TVB台庆剧。。
