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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）。在英国的一个小村庄里，来了一位曼妙的整容美女塔玛拉·德鲁（杰玛·阿特登 Gemma Arterton 饰），她曾经在这里长大，现在她已在外闯荡多年，还给自己天生的大鼻子整了形，成为一名年轻的记者，她此行只是为了将母亲遗留下的房子卖掉。然而，当曾经的大鼻子丑女以如此美艳的形象出现在众人面前时，宁静的村庄一下子波澜起伏，男人们接二连三地拜倒在塔玛拉的石榴裙下：小伙子安迪（卢克·伊万斯 Luke Evans 饰）从小就被她吸引，乐队鼓手本（多米尼克·库珀 Dominic Cooper 饰）更是与其展开热恋，甚至连中年作家尼古拉斯（罗杰·阿拉姆 Roger Allam 饰）也背着妻子与她纠缠。然而纸包不住火，事情渐渐暴露并发生一连串戏剧性的转折，塔玛拉和村民们的生活如何才能回归正轨？ 电影改编自波西·西芒德斯深受大众喜爱的同名漫画小说，漫画的创作灵感来源于托...。
