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）。一位富有且著名的哲学大师的争议哲学在他唯一的女儿被绑架并被勒索赎金时受到了终极考验。。因為家貧，還要照顧雙眼接近失明的爸爸，十二歲的阿牛(陳國坤飾)為了賺錢在街上賣螢光棒，卻被一班惡霸拖到後巷拳打腳踢。 原來牛爸 (林嘉華飾)當年為救好友興叔而被壞人弄傷雙眼，他失明後不想負累一眾兄弟，所以便發放死訊，人間蒸發。興叔因不可以報答牛爸的救命之恩而耿耿於懷多年年，現在陰差陽錯兄弟重逢，身為拳館師傅的興叔答應一定會把阿牛教好，讓他成材。阿牛後來便正式拜師，視興叔如再生父親。 這個時候的阿牛亦悟出一個道理，就是拳術不用不活，加上他的性格抱打不平 ，故此每逢遇到有人受到欺凌，他都會出手幫助，把壞人當作活靶來來操練， 大快人心之餘，拳腳功夫亦趨更快、更狠、更準。 興叔年年事漸高，拳館的聲望大不如前，拳館收入不足以維持拳館。阿牛唯有偷偷參加打黑拳，但是所有賽事加起來來的出場費和獎金都不足以維持拳館， 所以阿牛和小豬 (敖嘉年飾)便決定...。
