简介
在不久的将来：一股强大的全球恐怖势力袭击世界上最大的石油储备基地，导致石油价格飞涨，进一步恶化了全球经济危机。这种动荡的局势引起了很多事端。汽油和食品的供应短缺以及持续减少的福利拨款激怒了老百姓。原本用来填补贫富差异的本就脆弱的社会凝聚力如今已趋于瓦解。与此同时，左翼与右翼集团中存在的极端政治势力急切的希望重新激起众怒——一部分原因是企图在政府选举的民意投票种夺取有利的地位。极端的右翼分子组建了一支由马克西米利安·施奈尔担任主席的新政党。他巧妙的运用巨额公共宣传投资得到了多方支持。施奈尔是一个让人琢磨不透的人：权势——他唯一的兴趣所在——使他成功的从一个激进的左翼活动家转型为权利的追逐者。施奈尔承诺建立一个脱离其他国家的自由的政府。为了阻止这个可怕的事情发生并且控制住即将恶化为国内战争局势，政府秘密的支持处在优势地位的新成立的候选党派。他们必须在两个可怕的敌人中选择势力相对弱小的一方。并且他们决定孤注一掷：他们将求助一位脱离政坛多年的老朋友，罗尔夫·哈斯一位与施奈尔同时代的政治家。这项拥有最高秘密等级的计划还是运作了。哈斯从此要和他之前的情人——身为特警的纳丁· 曼兹一起工作，但是对于她，哈斯始终有一种无法释怀的感情。他们的目的在于打消施奈尔的士气，并且赋予左翼领导人弗朗茨·洁芮力量与支持，尽管他并不是决定性的人物（或者说他是个犹豫不决的人）。但在此之前，一项截然不同的计划正在秘密的进行当中。。孔雀台宣布续订真人秀《叛徒》第二季。。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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