在战争之中，具备远程射击的能力相当重要，这项基本需求驱使军事将领开发火炮科技，随着火炮演变，战争型态也演变了，战争有了新的面貌，不一样了，没有人面对面打仗了，他们甚至看不见彼此，更别提知道手下亡魂是谁了，火炮的威力已从古代的弓箭，演化成现代的火炮武器...

在战争之中，具备远程射击的能力相当重要，这项基本需求驱使军事将领开发火炮科技，随着火炮演变，战争型态也演变了，战争有了新的面貌，不一样了，没有人面对面打仗了，他们甚至看不见彼此，更别提知道手下亡魂是谁了，火炮的威力已从古代的弓箭，演化成现代的火炮武器...

One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. 　　In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited. 　　In Sex, he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. 　　In Belief, the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next. 　　In the final programme, Power, Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.

One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. 　　In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited. 　　In Sex, he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. 　　In Belief, the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next. 　　In the final programme, Power, Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.

1896年6月13日，李鸿章从俄罗斯乘火车前往德意志帝国进行访问，下榻于柏林豪华的恺撒大旅馆。李鸿章访德期间，受到官方和商界的热烈欢迎。因为他曾是德国军火器械的大主顾，德国盼望通过他进一步开拓中国市场，因而频频洽谈，处处宴请。德意志帝国政府殷勤款待，甚至连李鸿章常吸的雪茄烟、常听的画眉鸟，也“陈于几（茶几）而悬于笼”。寝室墙壁上，高悬照片两张大幅照片：左边是李鸿章，右边是德国前首相俾斯麦。

1896年6月13日，李鸿章从俄罗斯乘火车前往德意志帝国进行访问，下榻于柏林豪华的恺撒大旅馆。李鸿章访德期间，受到官方和商界的热烈欢迎。因为他曾是德国军火器械的大主顾，德国盼望通过他进一步开拓中国市场，因而频频洽谈，处处宴请。德意志帝国政府殷勤款待，甚至连李鸿章常吸的雪茄烟、常听的画眉鸟，也“陈于几（茶几）而悬于笼”。寝室墙壁上，高悬照片两张大幅照片：左边是李鸿章，右边是德国前首相俾斯麦。