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青春靓丽的女子莫丽·哈特莉（莎拉·林德 Sarah Lind 饰）和朋友们在一家舞厅庆祝她的24岁生日，当晚她似乎受到什么神秘力量的蛊惑，整个人变得有些神志不清，无法左右自己的言行。次日一早，两名警察上门，结果在莫丽的浴室里发现两具尸体。在此之后，莫丽被诊断精神上有问题而关进了精神病院。病院的治疗并没有任何好转，莫丽的异状反而愈演愈烈。种种异象，让担任主治医师的女性开始相信这个女孩的确被恶魔附体。与此同时，病院内还住着前牧师约翰·巴罗（戴文·萨瓦 Devon Sawa 饰），他当初经历了一次刻骨铭心的失败驱魔仪式，此刻更被教廷剥夺了神父身份。 医院内神秘可怕的事情愈演愈烈，约翰不得不迎接魔鬼的挑战……。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）。
