Pedro García Martín

Béjar (Salamanca) 1957

Professor of Early Modern History at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Recipient of the Extraordinary Graduation Award and PhD with Honors (Cum Laude).

He is a member of the scientific committee of the journals La Aventura de la Historia and Militarium Ordinum Analecta, a regular contributor to various print and audiovisual media, as well as a prologue writer, critic, and curator of exhibitions.

His work as a writer has two main strands: on the one hand, historical essays, among which stand out La Mesta (Alba 1990, Italian translation 1998), La Cruzada Pacífica. La peregrinación a Jerusalén de don Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera (Ediciones del Serbal 1997), Imagines Paradisi. Historia de la percepción del paisaje en la Europa moderna (ca.1450–ca.1850) (2000, Italian translation 2005), La pluma y el acero. La idea de Cruzada en la España del Siglo de Oro (S&C Ediciones 2004), and Cervantes. Lope de Vega. Vidas cruzadas (2007).

On the other hand, in historical fiction, he has published the novel Ruter el Rojo. Un aventurero entre los Austrias y los Borbones (EDHASA, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2006, Portuguese translation 2008). Republished under the title El reo de la Inquisición by Planeta DeAgostini in 2009. His book El químico de los Lumière. Cazadores de colores en la Belle Époque won the XII ‘Ciudad de Salamanca’ Novel Prize in 2007. He has also published La Virgen de Lope (Atanor Ediciones, 2011).