His books include The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641:A Political Study (1973), The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707 (1987) The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006), which has been translated into eight languages Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion (2008) and The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013). Read 48 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers.
For eight years he served as the chair of his department. The winner of several teaching awards, Levack offers a wide variety of courses on early modern British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. In 1969 he joined the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is now the John E. In graduate school he became fascinated by the history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, interests that he has maintained throughout his career.
from Fordham University in 1965 and his Ph.D. Witchcraft - Europe - History, Witchcraft, Heksenvervolgingen, Hexe, Hexenglaube, Hexenverfolgung, Hexenverfolgung, Geschichte (1450-1750), Hexenglaube, Witchcraft - history, Europe, Europe Witches Persecution, 1500-1700. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian. The two books are drawn together on a new companion website with supplementary materials for those wishing to advance their studies, including an extensive guide to further reading, a chronology of the history of witchcraft and an interactive map to show the geographical spread of witch-hunts and witch trials across Europe and North America.Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. Now fully integrated with Brian Levack's The Witchcraft Sourcebook, there are links to the sourcebook throughout the text, pointing students towards key primary sources to aid them in their studies. This new edition includes the most recent research on children, gender, male witches and demonic possession as well as broadening the exploration of the geographical distribution of witch prosecutions to include recent work on regions, cities and kingdoms enabling students to identify comparisons between countries. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and witchcraft trials, Brian Levack provides a concise survey of this complex and fascinating topic, while for more seasoned scholars the scholarship is brought right up to date. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field.
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