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）。圣诞树系列最终章，深度剖析“圣诞”所带来的希望与感动。故事场景移到100年以前的1914年，伊万与塔提亚娜相识在圣诞舞会上，二人相约第二年在此圣诞树下再见。随后一战爆发，两人在此地重逢，不同的是，舞厅已变成病房。圣诞节即将来临，可有规定战争时期禁止摆放圣诞树。两人约定，如果收集到一百万人签名，就在病房里摆放一棵圣诞树。伊万在报纸上发通告，两周时间就收集到一半的签名。可离圣诞节只有一天时间了，从军方前线收集到的签名发生意外……这个圣诞节，是苦难大于欢乐，亦或者是希望大于苦难？。恐怖和奇怪的事件困扰着玛雅和她家人的生活，她怀疑舅舅和舅妈是幕后黑手，因为他们一直想要获得玛雅家从外公那里继承的房子和土地。但是这种贪恋吸引了一股可怕的力量，这股力量的目标是玛雅全家。。
