视频简介
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）。讲述了PJ哈维一张唱片的创作历程。作家兼音乐家哈维和屡获殊荣的摄影师谢默斯·墨菲达成合作。哈维想要在她的作品中写到几个国家，为了亲身体验这些国家的生活，她几次和墨菲一起踏上他的全球报导之旅。他们一起去了阿富汗、科索沃和华盛顿。哈维负责记录文字，墨菲负责拍摄照片。回去后， 他们一起将资料制作成诗篇、歌曲，并在伦敦的萨默塞特宫以前所未有的形式将这些资料录制成一张专辑。在一个由单向玻璃建成的房子内，公众可以在保证不拍照的前提下观看这个长达五周的录制过程。墨菲将这个实验拍摄下来，作为他们私人旅行笔记的一部分。该片以他们在旅途过程中捕捉到的人和地点的影响为素材，以人性的体现为核心，讲述了这些素材变为歌曲和影片的过程。。
