血色星期一第二季

美国怀俄明州的西部，沉默寡言的农夫恩尼斯（希斯•莱杰饰）和热情开朗的牛仔杰克（杰克•吉伦希尔饰)一道被派到山上牧羊，那里人迹罕至，他们只有与羊群为伴，生活单调无味。一个天寒地冻的夜晚，在酒精与荷尔蒙的作用下，他们做了“不该做的事情”，也就此他们在断背山上度过了人生中最美好的时光。 季节性放牧结束，迫于世俗压力，杰克和恩尼斯不舍地与对方分离并各自结婚生子。恩尼斯迎娶了自幼相识的阿尔玛，并有了两个可爱的女儿；杰克到了德州，在妻子露琳家族的扶植下事业顺利，还有了个儿子。虽然彼此真心相应，他们只能每年定期约会。一边知情的阿尔玛痛苦无比，而他们又无法满足一年只有几天的团聚。这时意外发生……。在妻子突然去世，与两个女儿关系破裂后，约翰·摩尔和他最好的朋友查理·怀尔德决定从纽约长岛骑摩托车到西海岸。在这个现代的西方国家，他们会想起这个国家所提供的美丽，遇到许多有趣的人，面对过去的错误，寻求解脱时，他意外地发现生活就是向前走，一次一英里。。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）。