古惑仔阿伟因为杀死了黑道大哥的马仔而遭到了黑帮的追杀,同好友杰克森一同逃往泰国避难。在那里,阿伟结识了降头师猜旺。猜旺不仅拥有高强的法术,还拥有一本早已经失传的秘籍,这令阿伟十分眼红。
一天,阿伟偷看猜旺施法,习得了皮毛,正逢黑帮杀手追杀至泰国,阿伟利用降头术杀死了杀手保住一命。猜旺的妹妹阿水爱上了油嘴滑舌的阿伟,然而猜旺早就知道阿伟心术不正不是正派人士,于是强迫阿水离开阿伟,这令后者恼羞成怒,施法将猜旺杀死,又将阿水毁容,还带走了秘籍远走高飞。。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.
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