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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）。影片讲述了一个关于苏格兰抒情诗人柯林斯的令人难以置信的故事。中风后的柯林斯身体上的部分器官开始不受控制，他的大脑也变得混混沌沌，使得他原本的构思和想法也消失了。作为一名享誉国际的抒情诗人，现在的他失去了所有的语言能力，他只能说两个短语：“无限可能”和“格蕾丝·麦克斯韦”。但是他的妻子并没有放弃他，她下定决心要帮助自己的丈夫重新回到他原本的生活中去。于是他们开启了一段非凡的旅程，格蕾丝将他从死亡的边缘拉回来，重新拥有了语言、音乐、生活和爱。在妻子的帮助下，柯林斯也在试图开启他过去的故事。当然，这并不仅仅是一个关于排除万难取得胜利的故事，这也是一个关于爱，关于重新开启生命之旅的庆祝，是关于爱、音乐和语言所创造的生活奇迹的欢呼。。
