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)。勇作(阿部宽饰)是一位普通的工人,家庭里发生的变故导致他失去了理智出手打伤工友,因此面临着六年的漫长牢狱之灾。入狱的勇作不想连累妻子,他主动提出要和妻子离婚,给她自由让她去寻找自己的人生。 一转眼六年过去,即将出狱的勇作发现自己的心中依旧惦念着妻子的音容笑貌,他写了一封信给妻子,说如果妻子还爱着他,还想同他一起生活,那么就在家门口的旗杆上挂一缕黄手帕,如果返乡的自己没有看见黄手帕,就会自觉的离开。就这样,勇作踏上了回家的路,然而,连他自己都不知道,在这条坎坷的道路尽头,究竟会有怎样的结局在等待着他。。故事发生在1939年,弗朗塔(奥德捷·维奇 Ondrej Vetchý 饰)是一名捷克飞行员,动乱与战争之中,他和名为卡瑞尔(克里斯托弗·哈德克 Krystof Hádek 饰)的年轻人之间结下了深厚的友谊。一次意外中,卡瑞尔所驾驶的飞机失事了,卡瑞尔并无大碍,幸运的他甚至因祸得福,结识了漂亮温柔的苏珊(塔拉·菲茨杰拉德 Tara Fitzgerald 饰)。
孤男寡女相识于战火纷飞之中,苏珊和卡瑞尔之间的关系很快便逾越了单纯的友情。回到部队后的卡瑞尔将自己的传奇经历告诉了弗朗塔,并将弗朗塔介绍给了苏珊。令卡瑞尔没有想到的是,苏珊深深的爱上了稳重帅气的弗朗塔,卡瑞尔和弗朗塔之间的友谊因此而产生了裂痕。。