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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）。佩威尔是一个30来岁的男人，他和父亲齐格蒙特一起做着从法国北部贩卖二手服装到波兰的生意过活。 在一次从平常的“公差”的回程的路上，佩威尔看到自己父亲的照片被印在了波兰当地的小报纸上，名字下面写着“叛国贼”。齐格蒙特当年是一个天才般的反对派领袖，曾经在80年代组织过对独裁ZF的反对行动。可是现在，他的头像和名字却被冠以了叛国者的名字，而且那张有意境垮台的共产主义者掌权的小报还报道说，齐格蒙特是一个可耻的告密者，代号叫做“鼹鼠”。 在今天的波兰，虽然有着20年的民主化进程，但是齐格蒙特的故事还是引起了不小的波澜。报道指出，齐格蒙特当年领导的运动害死了不少矿主，而他的老婆伊娃的父亲，就死在当年的运动中。佩威尔坚信这是反对他父亲的人的无中生有之事，但是齐格蒙特很多反常的举动让佩威尔不得不对自己父亲的过去产生很多疑虑。事情波及到了这一家人，齐格蒙特前往法国北部...。
