In both these aims - but particularly in the former - he has succeeded will serve as a standard introduction to the topic for many years to come." So wrote Brian Easlea in the English Historical Review of this famous book when it first appeared in 1987. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013."Brian Levack's aims are to provide a coherent introduction to the subject and contribute to an ongoing scholarly debate. The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America.New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: A Six-Volume Anthology of Articles.Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1985. The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604.The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe.The West: Encounters and Transformations (with Edward Muir, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman).New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West.Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion.The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707.The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study.For eight years he served as the chair of his department. Levack offers a wide variety of courses on early modern British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. 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. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, Levack was appointed Scholar in Residence at the Frances Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee University School of Law, in 1994. 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. He has edited twenty books, including The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985) and The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004). 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. 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. In 1969 he joined the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is now the John E. (summa cum laude) from Fordham University in 1965, and then both his M.A. Brian Paul Levack (born 1943) is an American historian of early modern Britain and Europe.
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