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青年蒂姆（Barry Watson 巴里•沃特森 饰）有一份得体的工作，与女友杰茜卡（Tory Mussett 特瑞•姆塞特 饰）也十分恩爱。但是，他却因一段离奇的经历曾在精神病院接受过治疗，至今心中存有阴影。 童年时期，蒂姆的父亲（Charles Mesure 饰）经常为他讲述一些恐怖惊险的睡前故事，直到有一晚，蒂姆亲眼看见父亲被吸入壁橱，再没有出来。这段恐怖的经历让他在夜晚尤其缺乏安全感，他时刻担心夜魔会再次出现，将他虏走。 母亲（Lucy Lawless 饰）去世的消息传来，蒂姆不得不赶回家中操办葬礼，他也因此要再次面对困扰他多年的童年梦魇……。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）。