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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）。玛丽（希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰）自由喜欢冒险，这个爱好在她已为人母之后也没有半点的改变，带着小儿子乔治（卢克斯·哈内-贾丹 Lux Haney-Jardine 饰），玛丽来到了非洲探险，谁知道，年幼的乔治抵抗力不足，在那里患上了疟疾，不幸去世了。乔治的死击破了玛丽的心理防线，也让玛丽和丈夫皮特（弗兰克·格里罗 Frank Grillo 饰）的感情走到了摇摇欲坠的边缘。虽然一切都是意外，但玛丽始终无法摆脱是自己害死了乔治的这一想法。 和玛丽遭遇相似的还有一位名叫莫桑（布兰达·布莱斯 Brenda Blethyn 饰）的女子，她的儿子也因为疟疾而永远的离开了她。这不可磨灭的创伤指引这两个心碎的女人走到了一起，她们之间产生了前所未有的坚定的友情。。