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年近七十的本曾经是一位精明强干、事业有成的商人，最终，他还是和大部分老年人一样开始了平淡的退休生活。本对忙碌而又充实的过去无比怀念，孤独与内心里蠢蠢欲动的渴望让他做出了重回职场的决定，成为了年轻的朱尔斯手下的一名小小员工。朱尔斯年纪虽轻却是一家著名时尚购物网站的创办人，为了事业，她牺牲了自己全部的业余时间和感情生活，这份事业带给了朱尔斯荣耀，却也成为了她肩上沉重的负担，更糟的是，公司董事会已经开始怀疑，朱尔斯是否能够胜任她目前的职位了。起初，朱尔斯并没有将年迈又落伍的本放在眼里，然而，随着时间的推移，这位慈祥的长者渐渐成为了她生活中最真挚的友人。。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）。