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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）。1952年的夏天，波兰人民共和国建立的第八个年头，农民们在田间地头劳作，满心欢喜收割着自己辛勤劳动得来的果实。可就在解放前，农民的生活却凄惨无比。19356年出版的《农民日记》，记录了解放前穷苦波兰农民的惨状。肥沃的土地养育了农民，但否定了他们的存在。他们的孩子因缺少营养形成弓形腿，每家只能在复活节时才能买到一公斤糖，为了面包他们移民和漂泊，居无定所。 摄制组按照日记中的描述，走访了那些村落小镇，见证着解放后农民生活天翻地覆般的改变，农民子女对美好未来的追求和践行。忘不掉前夜的黑暗，同时更加感激今天的温暖阳光……。一名成功的画家，婚姻濒临破碎，自己也对久居巴黎的城市生活深感厌倦。心力交瘁之际他回到了远离巴黎的农村——那里是他度过童年的地方。母亲遗留下来的老房子已经被野生林木包围，于是画家登出启事寻找一位园丁为自己打理花园，顺便种植一些“真正”的蔬菜。巧合的是招聘来的老园丁竟是自己幼时的同学，两位年过半百的老人之间，由此开始了一场温暖而充实的对话……。
