生命之书

《魔王勇者》改编自日本小说家橙乃麻麻理著作的幻想小说。 某日，拥有着强大力量的“勇者”闯入了魔王的城堡，他为了拯救人类世界而向魔王挑战。但是，等着他的却是一位外貌与人类女性极其相似的“魔王”。这位魔王并没有选择与勇者开战，而是希望立下让勇者成为她的所有物的契约。而面对着一口回绝并要求决斗的勇者，魔王开始冷静地向勇者分析了人类与魔族间的实际情形，分析了当下的社会秩序是依存于这场战争的这一事实，还分析了即便是在打倒魔王后也无法在根本上解决这场战争的源头。 魔王本人希冀的是新的可能性——既不是战争结束后的悲惨结局，也不是使战争继续延续下去。勇者在明白了魔王为何需要他的协助之后，决定接受她的契约，帮助她完成心愿。于是，勇者和魔王隐藏了各自的真实身份，以一介剑士和一名学者的名义，开始改革这个世界。。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）。