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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）。在一个名叫特尼镇的所在，鸟语花香，草木清新，生活富足，只是这些都是表面的假象，所有的树木都由人工材料做成，并通过电脑和电力维持运作。虽然空气质量糟糕，可是当地的人民乐于享受这便利的现代化生活，更何况有欧海尔先生（Rob Riggle 配音）为他们提供新鲜的桶装空气呢！小青年泰德（扎克·埃夫隆 Zac Efron 配音）暗恋美丽的姑娘奥黛丽（泰勒·史薇芙特 Taylor Swift 配音），为了帮助女孩实现见到真正树木的梦想，他铤而走险离开特尼镇，来到满目疮痍、阴霾污浊的外部世界寻找传说中知晓关于树木一切信息的老万。从老万口中，泰德了解到这个曾经的成功商人以及当初棉花树满布的乐园变成荒山的全过程。乐土从此一去不返，除非……。
