All Hail King Ramir: The Bishop Who Refused to Be King and Fight Wars Volume 1 - Gil, Joan
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In the dark XII Century, the long Iberian war of reconquest rages on between fragmented Christian kingdoms in the nord and Muslims in the south. Ramir was the third son of the late king of Aragon and Navarre and his father had chosen for him an ecclesiastic career. In a monastery he had become a scholar and a man of peace and generosity. His older brothers had perished in the war against the Muslims without children and Ramir, who had become a Bishop, is unexpectedly elected as the new king. He opposes all forms of war and violence but as the sovereign he must witness the progressive…mehr

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In the dark XII Century, the long Iberian war of reconquest rages on between fragmented Christian kingdoms in the nord and Muslims in the south. Ramir was the third son of the late king of Aragon and Navarre and his father had chosen for him an ecclesiastic career. In a monastery he had become a scholar and a man of peace and generosity. His older brothers had perished in the war against the Muslims without children and Ramir, who had become a Bishop, is unexpectedly elected as the new king. He opposes all forms of war and violence but as the sovereign he must witness the progressive desintegration of his realm in civil wars and conflicts. The hostilities from the Moors loom threatingly. In want of a heir, Ramir marries Princess Agnes of Aquitaine, a 30-year old widow with a proven record of fertility. The union results in the birth of a girl, Princess Peronella. After less than four years on the throne, King Ramir identifies a way out: he betrothes his 2 year-old daughter to Ramon Berenguer, the young, strong and dashing Count of Barcelona and Prince of Catalonia who refuses the title of King, but accepts the hand of the little girl, who now wears the royal crown. Ramon Berenguer will immediately assume the effective rule of the kingdom with the title of Prince of Aragon. Pleased with the arrangement, Ramir happily returns to his former life as a monk while Agnes returns to Aquitaine.
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Joan Gil Born in Barcelona (Catalonia) After brief employment in rural community hospitals in West Germany and Switzerland, he became Assistant and later Professor at the Medical School of the University of Bern, Switzerland (1966-1976). He emigrated with his entire family to the US, being appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1977-1984) in Philadelphia and finally Professor and Attending Physician at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Hospital in New York City (1984-2006). He retired and lives currently in Fort Worth TX. Since early childhood he was highly interested in literature, especially classical, but his professional obligations kept him for exploring his writing abilities, as friends had advised him to do. His productivity was limited to scientific articles and books. He recently published two novels in Amazon (LAIA'S TAKEOVER and DRAMA IN THE UPPER EAST SIDE). ALL HAIL KING RAMIR is his third fiction novel and his first look at historical figures. The author stresses that he never was inclined to write medical dramas.