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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）。经历了六年的牢狱之灾，小混混费什（诺亚·海瑟威 Noah Hathaway 饰）重获自由。当年他为保护抢劫的同伴而抗下所有罪名，为此失去家庭，变成孤家寡人。 可是刚刚出狱，他就被接到一家日式风格饭店，等在那里的是当年的同伙：沉稳冷静的杜克（托尼·托德 Tony Todd 饰）、脾气暴躁的麦克斯（安迪·麦肯锡 Andy Mackenzie 饰）、言语刻薄的克洛（马克·哈米尔 Mark Hamill 饰）以及油滑精明的弗朗西斯（詹姆斯·杜沃 James Duval 饰）。同伙的目的只有一个，就是找到当年失踪的钻石。杀气腾腾的诘问下，当时抢劫的经过和背后隐藏的秘密相继浮现。 美娟佳肴，寒气逼人……。一个政治家在目睹妻子在一起恐怖事件中死于汽车炸弹后，一直在和自己搏斗……。
