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荒郊野外，深山老林，一辆失事的汽车斜倚在山坡上，其周身弥漫着死亡的气息。副驾驶座上，一个男人（艾德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 饰）从昏迷中苏醒，他全身上下到处是伤痕，右腿更骨折且被变形的车紧紧夹住。糟糕的是，因为车祸时的剧烈冲击，令他出现暂时性的失忆。他不知道自己的姓名与身份，从何而来，因何险些横尸这片森林之中，后作那个正慢慢腐烂的男人跟他又是怎样的关系。在猜测身份的过程中，这个男人还必须面对更为严重的生计问题，车上不仅没有食物水源，外面更有各种凶猛的野兽四处逡巡，死神的身影从未离开半分。 不久，一名女性（Caroline Dhavernas 饰）出现在车子附近，而从车在广播中男人似乎也渐渐明了自己的真实身份……。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）。
