中国武术队赴三藩市表演,武术冠军李国南博得满堂喝彩,台下观众席上的阿友大为敬佩。武术团成员王威自感年纪渐大,前途黯淡心中苦闷,在武术团登机回国之时,王威离队留美,国南出面挽留,反而也被滞留美国。王威在机场脱身时袭警,连累国南被警方逮捕,面临牢狱之灾。经亲戚阿平介绍,王威加入了黑帮华人头目马科一伙,而此时,国南趁警车遭遇车祸,奋力逃脱。国南想从阿平处打听王威下落,后者却因卷入帮派仇杀身亡,由越南赴美的阿平姐姐阿玲自此失去依靠。王威在帮派中做大,独当一面,阿玲则为了生存做了马科的情人,此时国南寄宿在阿友的小店中谋生并寻找回国的机会。王威的毒品在混战中被阿友拾走,这群流落异乡的华人的命运,因此又联系到了一起……。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.
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