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自打汉高祖刘邦打下天下，建立了刘汉王朝以来，十二任皇帝见证了一个传奇王朝的兴衰。然而在外戚的销蚀下，西汉王朝的国运一路走低，最终外表恭谨礼让的王莽将孺子踢到一边，自立为帝，篡汉建立了新王朝。然而王莽一系列颟顸的改革政策以及倒行逆施的行径令天下怨声载道，国土四周揭竿而起，叛乱不断。武帝玄孙南阳刘演行刺王莽未果反遭灭门，在长安读书的刘秀仓皇逃跑，而在此过程中结识了毕生的挚爱阴丽华。天下大乱，同宗的刘玄夺得玉玺，在众人的拥护下践祚自命更始帝。却嫉恨刘演的贤能，最终将其杀害。好不容易逃出虎口的刘秀则在邓禹、吴汉、李通、冯异、寇恂、耿弇等贤将的辅佐下扫河北、拒更始、平陇西、定蜀中，最终建立了东汉政权，成就了光武大帝的伟业！。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）。
