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战地记者麦特·艾尔曼（塔莫·潘尼凯 Tahmoh Penikett_dollhouse 饰）结束了多年在枪林弹雨中穿梭的危险生活，决定选择安静的生活。在新加坡某个狂欢派对上，麦特打算向女友杰希·麦卡兰（劳拉·范德芙特 Laura Vandervoort 饰）求爱，却遭遇一场突如其来的惨祸，二人双双死于人肉炸弹制造的爆炸中。不知过了多久，麦特再次醒来，却发现自己到了一个奇怪的空间。经过一条湍急的河流，他遇到众多死于爆炸之人，其中很多老者都恢复了青春容貌。短暂的诧异过后，麦特决心寻找失踪的杰西，在接下来的神秘旅途中，他遭遇无数奇怪之事，更见到了诸多历史上的著名人物。这一过程中，真相也渐渐浮出水面…… 本片根据同名小说改编，并被科幻频道拍成四集迷你剧集。。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）。
