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爱莲娜（Chloe Partridge 饰）是家中的独生女，集万千宠爱于一身的同时，也背负了来自父亲的期望和压力。爱莲娜的父亲是一位非常古板而又严厉的男人，在父亲的严苛管教之下，爱莲娜的个性变得顺从又乖巧，只是，这种顺从是被迫而为之的，实际上，这样一种生活令爱莲娜感到绝望和窒息。 一次偶然中，爱莲娜邂逅了名为艾雷西亚（莉莉·拉芙莱斯 Lily Loveless 饰）的女孩，艾雷西亚完全就是爱莲娜的对立面，她性格大大咧咧充满个性，总是就这自己的性子做事，不在意任何人的眼光。爱莲娜喜欢和艾雷西亚一起玩，只有跟她在一起的时候，她才能感受到什么是自由。。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）。
