剧情简介
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）。该剧为现代时尚版的“办公室的故事”，通过英达的双重角色(导演和主演)，带领广大观众在笑声中实现坐地日行八万里的欢乐之旅，天天享受“旅行社”老总英达为您定制的娱乐大餐，该剧以《自报家门》、《免费午餐》、《女友的男友》、《不是我不小心》、《办公室》等妙趣横生又意味深远的故事，生动刻画当代白领的喜怒哀乐，深刻反映新新人类的悲欢离合。 该剧区别于家长里短式的家庭类电视情景喜剧，力图将收视人群的定位从以往的“妇孺式观众”扩展到上班族、年轻人乃至整个当今中国的中产阶段，真正成为“日报式”的长剧，发挥情景喜剧的长线和时效特点，使之成为广大电视观众每天生活中不可或缺的亲密朋友。。
