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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）。晚清期间，黄飞鸿作为南派少林武功传人，在佛山一带已具盛名。某日，黄带同徒弟梁宽及牙擦苏到广州接远从美国回来的十三姨。三人路经铁路工地时，无故惹来工程总管十一少粗暴对待，继而产生争执。不久，黄因出面阻止十一少在闹市胡作非为，双方积怨日深，但却深受猪肉荣等坊众爱戴，恳请黄在当地开办“宝芝林”，设馆授徒，悬壶济世。开张之日，十一少竟派狮队前来抢青捣乱，并假借洋人之手置黄于死地，无奈技不如人，十一少阴谋未能得逞。他本身为关帝厅头目，恃着何提督撑腰，暗中从事贩卖鸦片、人口等罪恶勾当，一直视黄为深腹大患，急欲除之。后得悉黄与反清志士来往，密报提督将其收监并施以凌辱。 众人为救黄四处奔忙，适逢提督受洋人压力，惟有将之释放，但下令将黄等人逐出广州。黄深感不平，途经铁路工地时，得知十一少等贩卖人口罪证。黄为了匡扶正义，救牙擦苏，实行深入虎穴。。
