He is currently studying the development of trust in public institutions in early modern Britain and America.Įarly modern Britain, the history of witchcraft, the history of political thought, and comparative legal systems. The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study (1973) The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985) The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707 (1987)
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006) Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion (2008) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (2013) The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013) He has also edited twenty books, including The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985) The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (2013). 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.
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. B7000 GAR 1.104 Austin, Texas 78712-1739 512–471–3261īrian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Campus Dr. History & Philosophy of Science Certificate
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