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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）。辛亥革命胜利之后的民国初年，江南才女沈碧云为了实现进入中国最大的私人藏书楼博览群书、为所有学子争取读书的权利的理想，也为了探查杀父仇人，不惜以终生幸福为赌注，嫁入藏书楼之主的宣家，却由此陷入宣家内部的勾心斗角、争权夺利漩涡，遭遇重重危机，尝尽人情冷暖，几度出生入死，宣家也经历了一次次浩劫，直至家破人亡，碧云仍然矢志不渝，在宣家四少爷宣孝季和进步青年吴时的帮助下，凭着坚强的信念和过人的智慧拯救了宣家，成为宣家新当家人，并查清真凶，报得父仇。最终，沈碧云冲破封建祖制开放书楼，包括碧云在内的莘莘学子得以登楼读书。。
