视频简介
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）。故事发生在隋唐末年，隋文帝的次子杨广企图谋权篡位，为了避免遭到迫害，朝中重臣李渊（罗港生 配音）决定拖家带口离开京城这块是非地，返回故乡颐养天年。李渊的次子李世民（赵铭 配音）此时正陷入了同长孙无蓉（范雷颖 配音）的恋情之中，不愿意离开心爱之人的他想要留在京城，却遭到了无蓉的反对。 在返乡的途中，李世民遭到了杨广派出的杀手廖无极的袭击，手无寸铁的他命悬一线。在这个节骨眼上，偶然路过的秦琼拔刀相助，救了李世民一命，两人就此结下了不解之缘。之后，李世民还遇到了徐茂公、尉迟恭（袁国庆 配音）和程咬金（王肖兵 配音）等英雄好汉，在他们的辅佐之下，李世民能否推翻杨广的统治？。
