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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）。在大学期间，斯科特（凯文·詹姆斯 Kevin James 饰）是一名野心勃勃的摔跤选手，对于摔跤的热爱让他的生活充满了挑战和激情，他曾天真的以为，这份激情不可能会有退却的一天。然而，在42岁之际，斯科特突然发现自己竟然成为了一个生活乏善可陈的中年教师，死气沉沉的工作环境，毫无前途和发展刻板职业，在内心里，有一部分早已死去。 为了节省开支，学校决定取消音乐课，作为音乐老师，马蒂（亨利·温克勒 Henry Winkler 饰）即将面临被解雇的命运。马蒂的悲惨遭遇点燃了斯科特的斗志，他决定帮朋友一把。通过打地下拳击赛，斯科特筹得了资金保住了音乐课在学校里的地位，他的这一举动却遭到了他人的误解。但是，在斯科特的内心里，放弃还是坚守，这个问题的答案早已了然于心。。
