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）。故事围绕着五位主角展开。在大学任职教授的泰德（乔什·拉德诺 Josh Radnor 饰）还在感情路上寻寻觅觅，等待真命天女的到来。这天，巴尼（尼尔·帕特里克·哈里斯 Neil Patrick Harris 饰）告诉他一个消息，巨人国家银行委派他设计一座新的总部大楼。几经考虑后，泰德答应接受这份工作，因此泰德和巴尼成为了工作伙伴。 另一方面，婚后的马修（杰森·席格尔 Jason Segel 饰）和莉莉（艾丽森·汉妮根 Alyson Hannigan 饰）开始了他们伟大的“造人计划”，然而事情并非一帆风顺。他们的好友罗宾（寇碧·史莫德斯 Cobie Smulders饰）因为与男友分手而情绪低落，她何时可以摆脱失恋阴霾？。1939年，中国国内的局势宛如一个巨大的漩涡，各方势力裹挟于此，拼死角力，一着棋错，满盘皆完。沉默冷静的方滔（吴秀波 饰）是这场角力中的一枚棋子，也是至关重要的一着。他有着多重身份，表面上是比利时使馆中的职员，暗中的身份既是共产党的狙击手，又是军统的特务，更是一名青帮成员。没人知道他的真实身份，也没人能轻易逃出他的狙杀。 随着全国上下抗日情绪的高涨，军统与中共方面针对汪伪政权的锄奸行动也紧锣密鼓地展开了。另一方面，日寇也对革命中的关键人士展开追捕和暗杀。方滔就这样被推向历史的前列，做着惊世骇俗却又鲜为人知的神秘工作……。
