视频简介
“游牧者一号”是美国国防部开发的配备有超级粒子束武器的同步卫星，他具有高倍的望远镜，并可精确打击地面上任一目标。然而掌握卫星密码的两名技术人员却被疯狂的科学家查维斯·丹（Eric Bogosian 饰）和特种部队上校马库斯·潘（Everett McGill 饰）率领的恐怖团伙所虏获，“游牧者一号”也毫无悬念地被这群家伙所劫持。国防部虽然紧急应对，却无法与狡猾的恐怖分子抗衡，只能眼睁睁地看着华盛顿成为“游牧者一号”将要袭击的目标。 与此同时，前海军特种部队成员西斯·里贝克（史蒂文·西格 Steven Seagal 饰）正与侄女莎拉（Katherine Heigl 饰）搭乘这趟列车旅行。在危急时刻，西斯挺身而出，独自与恐怖分子展开正邪对抗……。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）。
