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)。居住在美国纽约丽贝卡·布鲁姆伍德(艾拉·菲舍尔 Isla Fisher 饰)是一家庭园杂志的记者,在这个繁花渐欲迷人眼的国际大都市,这个美丽女孩漫无边际的购物欲望得到极大宣泄,不实用的服饰源源不断运回家。然而硬币的另一面,却是由此导致的债台高筑。糟糕的财务状况让她的生活一团糟,虽然试图戒掉购物瘾,不过最终都在心仪的商品之前败下阵来。另一方面,丽贝卡希望进入梦寐以求的阿列特杂志供职,阴差阳错进入了该杂志旗下的一个财经杂志编辑部。对理财一窍不通的她偶尔写了一篇角度新颖的投资文章,受到了读者和业内的好评,甚至爱情也随即降临。不过谎言总有拆穿的一天,更何况还有那沉重如山的债务摆在眼前……
本片根据英国作家索菲·金塞拉(Sophie Kinsella)的“购物狂”系列作品改编。。黑道大嫂沈依然,为保护丈夫顾泽只身引开杀手,身受重伤。回到家后却从顾泽和手下的争吵中意外得知一直以来他的所爱其实另有其人。他娶自己、在媒体面前大肆宣扬对自己的爱意,不过是为了替白月光引开仇家视线,让自己做活靶子……。