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公元前221年， 秦始皇吞并六国，结束了中国历史上长达一百多年的春秋战国时代，建立了由中央集权的统一王朝。为巩固国家政权，遏制民众叛乱，秦始皇对内施行暴政统治，对外修筑长城抵抗匈奴侵扰。一时间，天下百姓怨声载道，苦不堪言，家破人亡，饿殍遍野。为反抗秦始皇的暴政统治，复国图存的六国后裔在旧日的属地上蓄势而动。 此时，秦始皇建都的咸阳正大兴土木，抵御匈奴的长城也在数百万劳役的尸骨上一天天向前延伸。在衣衫褴褛的劳役中，来自沛县的刘季和所有劳役一样，衣不蔽体，食不果腹。但远远地看见秦始皇浩荡的出巡队伍，刘季和吴中的项籍发出同样的感慨：大丈夫理当如此，有朝一日我必将取而代之。 和在咸阳修筑长城、在吴中习武演阵的项籍一样立志铲除秦始皇暴政的，还有精通兵法的儒硕张良。在秦始皇出巡的路上和大铁锤一起行刺秦始皇失败后，张良慕名而来，被项梁盛情挽留，做了侄子项籍的兵法...。12个普通人在一场充满争议的谋杀审判中被选为陪审团成员，在这场审判中，一名妇女被指控杀害了一名儿童。。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）。