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)。大家都熟悉的蟑螂,油滑锃亮的外壳,以及四处摆动的长须子,这是人类最讨厌的蟑螂。不过如果蹲下身子仔细看一看的话,也许会惊奇地发现,原本超级恶心的蟑螂竟是一个可爱的小姑娘。故事的主人公蟑螂娘(能登麻美子 配音)原本生活在东京,虽然长得乖巧迷人,性格温柔善良,但三番五次遭到人类和猫儿的追杀,不得已搬家来到了寒冷的北海道。性格爽朗的小蠊(钉宫理惠 配音)是蟑螂娘来东北列车上认识的好朋友,两个性格迥异的小家伙上演一连串别开生面的故事。有趣的视角,展现了一个熟悉而又陌生的世界……
本片根据るい•たまち的同名四个漫画改编。。