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故事发生在17世纪的北美大陆，尽管生存环境恶劣，资源稀缺，但世世代代生活在这里的印第安人仍然享受着延续了百年的宁静生活。然而，这样的生活伴随着来自西方文明世界的三艘小船的到来即将划上终点，103名英国水手来到了这片未经开垦的处女地，建设了他们的据点，在这里宣扬他们的宗教和文化。 “永恒苏珊”号的甲板上，一位名叫史密斯（柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）的青年因为违抗军令而即将遭到处死，船长纽波特（克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰）看中史密斯的精明强干，留下了他。一行人上岸驻扎，建立了詹姆斯镇，却在无意之中侵犯了酋长波瓦坦（欧琳卡·乔彻 Q'Orianka Kilcher 饰）的领地。之后，史密斯邂逅了酋长的女儿波卡洪塔斯（Q'orianka Kilcher 饰），两人之间产生了一段传奇的感情。。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）。