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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）。中国古典四大名著之一的《西游记》到了日本漫画大神手冢治虫的手里，俨然有变幻出另一番模样。脱生于顽石中的孙悟空曾经雄霸一方，靠剪径为生。后来被邪恶的国王关在监狱中，偶遇小龙女，在此之后拜入龙海仙人门下，不仅学得七十二般变化，还得到宝贝如意金箍棒。本领大增的孙悟空啸聚山林，劫富济贫，甚至惊动天庭，惹出大闹天宫的连场好戏。最后终因自不量力，被如来佛祖压在五指山下。借助胆小如鼠的唐僧的帮助，孙悟空重获自由，之后他们遇到穿西装戴领结的猪八戒还有爱财如命四处挖宝藏的沙悟净，师徒一行由此展开了险象环生、乐趣无穷的西天大冒险……。
