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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）。明嘉靖年间，东瀛倭寇犯我疆土，百姓深受其害，平安镖局也卷入其中。倭寇大举侵略东辽，大明使臣安公朴（李华 饰）自朝鲜返回途中遭遇倭寇至今下落不明，千户大人令锦衣卫王兆兴（吴奇隆 饰）找到安公朴，护送至辽中千户营。找到安公朴后，一干人马奔辽阳而去，但脱险后的安公朴视沿途百姓求救声而不见，只顾自身逃命。平安镖局副总镖头谷平安（王鸥 饰）不堪目睹百姓沦亡，自愿免费护送百姓去辽阳。途中遭日本忍者追杀，谷平安和王兆兴以民族大义为重，摒弃前嫌联手与倭寇拼杀。倭寇的穷追不舍令王兆兴生疑，他逼安公朴说出此行的真相，被逼无奈的安公朴终于吐露了内心的秘密......。英国演员Peter Serafinowicz先前作为主演加盟Amazon的试映集《闪电超人 The Tick》。本剧根据Ben Edlund的漫画改编的、以全新演员阵容翻拍；Edlund曾在2001在Fox创作了同名真人版剧，同时也是1994年动画片的创作人，这一次他又将重新执笔，幷还将担任本剧的执行制片人。 新版将把这个肌肉发达的蓝色超级英雄（Serafinowicz饰）重新带回观众的视线。新版本中，闪电超人从失忆中恢复过来，他不想再与 Arthur（Griffin Newman饰）组队打击邪恶了。同时新版本中还将加入很多新的角色，其中还包括Arthur的妹妹Dot（Valorie Curry饰）。 Brendan Hines饰演的Superian，一个有些个人问题的超级英雄。奥斯卡提名者Jackie Earle Haley加盟Amazon试映集《...。
