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)。故事发生在1938年的波士顿。托尼(彼得·福克 Peter Falk 饰)、山迪(杰拉德·墨菲 Gerard Murphy 饰)、贾斯(保罗·索维诺 Paul Sorvino 饰)和比利是情同手足的四兄弟,常常聚在一起商量干一票抢劫的非法勾当。没过多久,法律就给予了他们制裁,四人被关进了监狱,等待着他们的是漫长的刑期。
第二次世界大战结束后,四人刑满释放,回归了社会。然而,他们并没有珍惜这难能可贵的自由,一次偶然中,托尼发现了一间银行的安保漏洞,抢劫金库的计划被提上了日程。在经过了缜密的策划之后,一行四人开始了行动,并且最终抢走了二百七十万美金,在社会上引起了巨大的轰动,警方很快就将怀疑的目标锁定到了托尼一行人的身上。。