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Francisco J. García-Serrano Nebras, Ph.D.


Division of Humanities
History

Education

Ph.D. History (University of California, Berkeley)
Doctorado Homologado by the Spanish Ministry of Culture
Accredited by ANECA (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación): "Profesor Contratado Doctor", "Profesor de Universidad Privada" and "Profesor Ayudante Doctor"
M.A. History (University of California, Berkeley)
Curso de Adaptación Pedagógica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Licenciado en Geografía e Historia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Practice Areas

  • Medieval Iberia, Medieval Mediterranean
  • Mendicant Orders
  • National Identities
  • Early Iberian Presence in Asia
  • Medieval Travels and Exploration

Publications and Media Placements

Books

Francisco García-Serrano (editor). The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Francisco García-Serrano, Preachers of the City. The Expansion of the Dominican Order in Castile, 1217-1348. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1997.

Refereed Book Chapters and Contributions

Francisco García-Serrano, "Friars and Nobles: Mendicant Patronage and Aristocratic Power in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Castile" in Cornelia Linde and Robert Friedrich (eds.), Mendicants and Political Power(s) in the Middle Ages, (Brepols Publishers, 2026). (Forthcoming).

Francisco García-Serrano, "Medieval Encounters between Iberia, the Mediterranean and Asia: Myths and Realities" in Marie Kelleher, Antonio Zaldivar, and Thomas Burton (eds.) Constructing Iberian Identities, (Brepols Publishers, 2022), 181-196.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Ambiguity, Friendship and Pragmatism: Medieval Friars in Iberia and Beyond" in Kim Bergqvist, Kurt Villads Jensen and Anthony John Lappin (eds.), Conflict and Collaboration in Medieval Iberia, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, 181-200.

Francisco García-Serrano, "The Peculiarities of Frontier Religious Authority in the Age of Fernando III", in Edward L. Holt and Teresa Witcombe (eds.), The Sword and the Cross: Castile-León in the Era of Fernando III, Amsterdam: Brill (The Medieval Iberia Series) 2020, Chapter 9, pp. 224-240.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Entre exclusión e inclusión: las órdenes mendicantes en la Baja Edad Media castellana", in Jesús Solórzano Telechea (ed.) Exclusión social y disciplina en la ciudad medieval europea (Exclusion and Social Discipline in The European Medieval City), Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2018, 111-136.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Friars and Royal Authority in The Thirteenth-Century Castilian Frontier" in In Honor of Teófilo F. Ruiz: Authority and Spectacle in Medieval Iberia and Early Modern Spain. Essays in Honor of Teófilo F. Ruiz. Yuen-Gen Liang and Jarbel Rodriguez eds. Rouledge (London and New York, 2017), 104-117.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Del convento al palacio: los frailes y las oligarquías castellanas (siglos XIII-XIV)", in Poder, piedad y devoción. Castilla y su entorno (siglos XII-XV), Isabel Beceiro Pita (dir.), Madrid: Silex 2014, 77-102.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Conclusion: The Mendicants as a Mediterranean Phenomenon," in Taryn Chubb and Emily Kelly, ed., Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean, Special issue of Medieval Encounters, Volume/2- 3 (Brill, 2012), 272-289.

Francisco García-Serrano, "La creación de la identidad en la frontera medieval castellana y la visión del otro: mudéjares y judíos" en Hacedores de Frontera. Estudios sobre el contexto social de la Frontera en la España medieval. Madrid: CEU Ediciones, 2009,73-90.

Refereed Journal Articles

Francisco García-Serrano Nebras, Martinez-Davila, Roger Louis: Perrone, Sean; and Martin de Vidales Garcia, Maria (2018) "Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals: Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcriptions and Modern Digital Editions," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 43: Iss. 1, Article 2.

Francisco Seijo, Francisco García-Serrano, et al., "Forgetting fire: Traditional fire knowledge in two chestnut forest ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula and its implications for European fire management policy," Land Use Policy, 47 (2015): 130-144.

Francisco García-Serrano, "España y América ante la Leyenda Negra: mito y realidad," Iberoamericana, (Instituto Iberoamericano, Sophia University), Tokyo, Japan, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (2012): 1-12.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Reflexiones sobre la identidad: la invención medieval de España", Cuadernos Canela, Japan. (Confederación Académica Nipona Española y Latino Americana), vol. XXIII, (2011): 27-38.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Revisiting Castilian Identity: Medieval Origins of Nationalism," Temas medievales, (Buenos Aires) 10 (2000-2001): 161-175.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Mundo urbano y dominicos en la Castilla medieval." Archivo Dominicano, 18 (1997): 255-273.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Nuevas tecnologías en la recuperación histórica: Internet." Fuentes y recursos de información en Ciencias Históricas. (Madrid: CINDOC. CSIC, 1995): 155-193.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Don Juan Manuel and His Connection with the Order of Preachers." Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 23 (1993): 151-162.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Los genoveses en Sevilla (siglos XIII-XV)." Lucero. A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (UC Berkeley), 2 (1991): 89-93; and 3 (1992): 67-73.

Francisco García-Serrano, "Los tres conceptos del Apóstol Santiago." Lucero. A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (UC Berkeley), 1 (1990): 10-16.

Digital Humanities and Collaborative Projects

Board of Directors Member and Collaborator, Plus Ultra Collective.

Francisco García-Serrano, Roger L. Martínez et al., "Virtual Plasencia". "Revealing Cooperation and Conflict" January 2015.

Francisco García-Serrano, Roger L. Martinez et al., Editor of "Deciphering Secrets: Digital Medieval History, Europe, and the Globe" in Frontiers, a community- rooted, open-access academic publisher. March-December 2017.

Papers Delivered

Invited: "Homage to Dr. Teófilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor (UCLA)" 20th International Meetings of the Middle Ages, Nájera, Spain, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2023.

Invited: "Between Nobility and Royalty: Castilian Mendicants Beyond the Convent in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries." Historisches Institut, Universität Greifswald, Germany, Sept. 11-13, 2023.

Invited: discussant for "Las narraciones de viaje y de peregrinación como fuente histórica", Taules de Debat, Departament de Ciències Històriques – Estudis Medievals IMF – CSIC (Barcelona), June 21, 2023.

Invited: "Relaciones entre frailes, mercaderes y viajeros con los nómadas euroasiáticos, una visión desde la Península Ibérica (siglos XIII-XV)." Los mongoles en el Oeste. Noticias de la Integración Euroasiática en los Reinos Ibéricos. Coloquio Internacional. Madrid 17 y 18 de mayo de 2023, UNED.

"Between Borders and Frontiers: Friars in the Iberian Peninsula" in the panel title Orders at Borders: Mendicants and Border Societies in Medieval Europe. International Medieval Congress 2022, Leeds, England, July 4-7, 2022.

"An Incipient Reform: Dominican Representation and Organization in Late Medieval Iberia." International Congress Political and ecclesiastical agents in the reform(s) of the religious orders in Europe during the Late Middle Ages (c. 1250-1500).
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Nov. 22-25, 2021.

"Representation and The Dominican Order in Late Medieval Iberia," Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology: The Order of Preachers and Its Spheres of Action (1215 - c. 1600). International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (IGTM); Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 23-26 June 2020 (postponed to June 29-July 2, 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic).

"Fazía muy grant calentura: Climate Perception among Medieval Friars on the Iberian Peninsula," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 5-9, 2021. (Withdrawn due to COVID-19 pandemic).

"Medieval Encounters between Iberia, the Mediterranean and Asia: Myths and Realities", Iberia, the Mediterranean and the World in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. UCLA-The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oct. 11-14, 2018.

Organization of Conferences and Symposia

Annual Lecture for the CIHS: Professor Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University): The Inquisition's Inquisitor: Henry C. Lea of Philadelphia. March 14, 2025.

The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies, Saint Louis University-Madrid, Oct. 3-5, 2024.

Inaugural Lecture for the Center for Iberian Historical Studies (CIHS) by Distinguished Professor Paul Freedman (Yale University). April 26, 2024. Saint Louis University-Madrid.

Atlantic Studies: Global Currents – Charting the Future A Symposium, Saint Louis University-Madrid (Spain), March 23-25, 2023.

Co-organizer of The Republic of Letters and the Formation of Transoceanic Empires (Iberian Monarchies 15th-18th Centuries), international conference at Saint Louis University-Madrid, Dec. 9-10, 2021.

Miembro del Comité Científico: Congreso Internacional Virtual: "La escatología Medieval". Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 28-29, 2021. (https://escatologiamedievalciem.webnode.es/)

Professional Organizations and Associations

Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Center for Iberian Historical Studies (CIHS) at Saint Louis University.