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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）。地府新任的阎王 (徐鸣杰饰)，努力把地府科技化，有丰功伟绩，仍然不被织命殿的老官员裴老 (陈澍城饰) 接受和敬重。因为织命师能主宰投胎的鬼魂做人以后，拥有好命或坏命，故此织命殿在地府地位超越阎王，敛财无数。 阎王不想织命的绝技被裴老一党垄断，于是选中浩良 (谢俊峰饰) 和静静 (何盈莹饰)，进入织命殿当卧底。浩良是新魂，和30年前因为救他而死的老师晓雯 (周智慧饰) 在地府重逢，二人感情开始升温。 地府有大危机，是人类情愿偏爱养宠物，也不生育，地府居民无法投胎做人！地府温度如果不能保持在安全的零度，就会爆炸。阎王决定让地府居民，投胎去当猫狗！裴老煽动居民抗议，阎王找了阳间的一鸣 (张哲通饰) 下来帮忙，劝服居民答应去人间当宠物。一鸣为了曾经暗恋的静静，接下任务。二人虽然人鬼有别，还是成为情人。 裴老因为被阎王垄断利益，狠手对付阎王的属下。浩良、晓雯、...。