![]() ![]() ![]() 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). For eight years he served as the chair of his department. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. 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. 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. Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. ![]()
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