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)。永远乐观的艾比·斯通追随她受人尊敬的已故父亲哈利·斯通法官的脚步,接受了监督曼哈顿提审法庭夜班的挑战。艾比总是看到人们最好的一面,她对正义的热情是不可否认的。为了给法庭带来秩序和尊严,并统治这群古怪的人,她聘请了前夜间法庭地方检察官丹·菲尔丁担任法庭的公设辩护人。菲尔丁仍然非常自信,他必须适应新老板和新工作——保护受压迫的人。而且在菲尔丁傲慢的举止之下,艾比决心发掘菲尔丁善解人意的一面。他们都必须与法庭上多管闲事的助理地方检察官奥利维亚抗衡。她干劲十足、雄心勃勃,将夜间法庭视为她走向更大事业的垫脚石。。1993年仁川,粗鲁又不好相处的高利贷业者头石(成东镒饰)和宗培(金熙元饰)想拿回欠债,却意外地带回九岁的承怡(朴昭怡饰)作为担保。 「担保是什么意思?」不知道什么意思就成为担保的承怡,因承怡妈妈遭到遣返,头石和宗培必须负责把孩子送给别人领养。本以为承怡被有钱人家领养,却发现送到不是原先想像的地方,两人决定把承怡带回家照顾。突然接管小孩,必须担保小孩人生的头石和宗培,与因欠债而被作为担保的承怡,头石、宗培、承怡这三个人,不知不觉成为彼此很特别的存在。。