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小男孩子艾伦· 库兰德和当父母及小弟弟苏利文住在破旧不堪的帝国旅馆，生活十分贫穷。不久，艾伦的父亲被迫将小儿子苏利文送到亲戚家住。帝国旅馆经理本对那些迟迟不交房租的客户采取封闭房间、扫地出门的办法。库兰德太太因病进了一所疗养院。后来，库兰德先生去卖旧手表。艾伦被单独留下对付欠房租的问题。此时，他的学校正准备毕业典礼。艾伦的朋友扒手莱斯特，帮助艾伦从本的仓库里偷了毕业典礼要穿的全套漂亮衣装。。摄影师褚晨偶然得知昔日女友苏晓晓在与自己分手后身染重疾，将不久于人世，决定陪她走完最后一程。送走晓晓之后，褚晨回到了家。他以为他所做的这一切将成为他心中永远的秘密，却不料妻子岳悦对此早有察觉……。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）。
