视频简介
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）。权力、金钱、美女、荣誉，物欲横流的当代社会，男人们衣冠楚楚，如狼一般狩猎着各自锁定好的目标，而贪得无厌的本性，又让他们在奔忙猎杀中丧失本性，满盘皆输。学者兼主持人张嘉铭（侯天来 饰）、有钱有势的陈广裕（徐文 饰）、高级白领叶景天（王挺 饰）、受学生喜爱的大学教师路维中（王伯昭 饰）、银行行长江成云（吴秀波 饰），在许多人看来，这些男人均可为成功人士的代表。他们沾沾自喜，洋洋得意，满以为一切都在自己的掌握中，可是当和王童童（阎娜 饰）、卓然（王鸥 饰）、安琪（求斯 饰）、宁远（李诚杰 饰）、眉虹（郭柯宇 饰）这些女子邂逅后，却发现自己最终从猎人的角色变成了猎物。 粉红骷髅张开双臂，愚痴之人投怀送抱……。
