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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）。穷小子威尔顿为改变自己的命运，从爱尔兰来到伦敦当起网球教练，立誓要凭一身网球绝技混入对该运动情有独钟的上流社会。结识富家公子哥汤姆后，他得到机会，对方的妹妹克罗伊对他一见钟情，其后，在对方的父亲的相助下，威尔顿顺利混入上流社会。 正当要与克罗伊谈婚论嫁时，威尔顿邂逅汤姆的女友、来自美国的女演员诺拉，后者同样在为进入上流社会做着不懈的努力。相似经历令两人萌生真情，但威尔顿并没为诺拉放弃自己的计划。一切梦想都成真后，威尔顿重遇已与汤姆分手的诺拉，两人旧情复燃，威尔顿开始在她与妻子之间周旋。不久，诺拉怀孕坚拒堕胎，威尔顿迎来人生的赛点。。
