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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）。摄影师増岡（塚本晋也 饰）性格压抑，对人类的恐惧有浓厚的兴趣。一日他凑巧拍下了陌生男子阿礼在地铁刺瞎自己的右眼，増岡反复研究录像，并为实地考察阿礼自残的原因回到现场，他从地铁的设备管道深入地下，惊见已经泯灭的地下文明遗址，并带回一名被锁在遗迹中的赤裸女子。 増岡称女子为“F”，自此他和F同居一室，并每天工作时借视频手机观察F的举动，F不吃不喝，生命逐渐垂危。増岡偶然发现F吸食血液，于是割伤自己为其续命，不久増岡即发展到杀害陌生女人取血的地步。但F在人类世界难以生存，逐渐麻木的増岡在同F的关系中体味到了真正的恐惧……本片获2005年布鲁塞尔国际幻想电影节金乌鸦奖。。
