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）。乌克兰南部一隅，一辆越野车载着“欧洲安全与合作组织”人员来到人烟稀少的边境线。担任翻译的卢卡斯因故与车上人员失去联络，手机没有信号，身上的钱和护照都丢了，只好到附近小镇落脚。他遇上失败的发明家弗瓦，并发现这里的生活超出想像，不同于任何他所了解的社会形态。这位城市大男孩在一片宽广、炙热、贫困的土地，遇上所爱，开始探求他从未知其存在的快乐和幸福。导演以他过去拍摄纪录片的经验，结合了现实与虚幻，精致如画的影像令人陶醉，在这个摇摇欲坠，超凡脱俗的梦境中，生动地描绘了乌克兰南部色彩缤纷的世界，谱出了不一样的超现实喜剧。。
