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）。米娜是一家美容机构的接待员，社交网络上的她有着迷人的脸蛋和身材、性感又温柔的声音，但现实中的她却只是一个整日吃着冰淇淋的超重中年女人。米娜渴望爱情，却也明白自己的外在让她注定与真爱无缘。她通过电话约见网友，却又不敢现身。后来，她终于遇到一个愿意了解真正的她、与她分享故事的男人，这个男人会是她的Mr.Right吗?。在这部嬉笑怒骂的历史修正主义动画里，挥舞着链锯的乔治·华盛顿集结了一批惹事生非者，包括热爱啤酒的塞缪尔·亚当斯、知名科学家托马斯·爱迪生、优秀马术师保罗·列维尔和暴躁老哥杰罗尼莫等，想要在美国独立革命中击败本尼迪克特·阿诺德和詹姆斯国王。谁会笑到最后？没人知道。只有一件事能确定：他们可不是你印象中的国父。。
