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Brian Paul Levack (born 1943) is an American historian of early modern Britain and Europe.He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from in 1965 and his Ph.D. From in 1970. In 1969 he joined the History Department of, where he is now the John E.
Green Regents Professor in History. His research interests center on the history of the law, the relationship between law and politics in early modern Britain, the formation of the British state, witch-hunting, and demonic possession.Levack is most widely known for his book The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006), a comparative survey of witch-hunting throughout the early modern world that has been translated into eight languages. He has edited twenty books, including The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985) and The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004).
His most recent book, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013), challenges the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness and argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts.The recipient of a in 1975, Levack was appointed Scholar in Residence at the Frances Lewis Law Center, in 1994. At Texas he was admitted to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2004, and in 2011 he received the University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award.
Levack offers a wide variety of courses on early modern British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. For eight years he served as the chair of his department. Select bibliography Books. The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. London: Longman, 1987; 2nd ed.
1995; 3rd ed. 2016. The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. The West: Encounters and Transformations (with Edward Muir, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman). New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. 2nd edition 2006, 3rd ed.
2010, 4th ed. 2013. Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion. London: Routledge, 2008. The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.Books edited. The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604. Co-edited with Bruce Galloway. Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1985.
New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: A Six-Volume Anthology of Articles. New York: Routledge, 2001. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.References.
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