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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）。上世纪60年代，在密西西比州，黑佣艾比里恩勤勤恳恳照顾女主人的女儿，后者因产后抑郁症只顾与闺蜜贪欢。密西西比大学毕业生斯基特在报社负责家庭主妇信箱，并由此开始黑佣的生存状态。其中，希利无疑是反面教材，她态度傲慢，对黑佣米妮抱有偏见，并力主黑佣不能与主人共用厕所。最终因不堪受辱，米妮愤然离去，并以牙还牙，假借道歉之机让她蒙羞。斯基特开始采访艾比里恩和米妮，希望了解黑佣的生存状态，并为自己的新书积累素材。与此同时，马丁路德金领导的平权运动正在如火如荼地开展，而斯基特所在的密西西比州正是斗争的前沿，因为黑人遭射杀的血案，种族隔离开始，一场肤色之争在所难免……。
