Rate My Professor Luis Cortest

Cortest has produced several key scholarly works, including the critical edition of the Arte para servir a Dios by Fray Alonso de Madrid (1989), editor of a collection of studies on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1989), editor of a festschrift for José Durán (1994), The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and its Encounter with Modernity (2008) on the medieval and Early Modern natural law tradition, a modern edition of the sixteenth-century Regimiento de la vida by Moshe Almosnino (2011), and Philo's Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas (2017), which examines Philo of Alexandria's philosophical method's influence on Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thinkers up to Baruch Spinoza. In 2025, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman’s Award (FEJ-310338-25, $30,000) for his biography project Juan de Mariana, the Last Great Spanish Thinker, detailing the life of the Spanish priest and historian (1534-1624), including his editorial work on the Antwerp Polyglot Bible and defense of tyrannicide, with submission planned by 2027.