Faculty

Levack, Brian P.
Professor
John E. Green Regents Professorship in History

Office: GAR 3.502
Office Hours: Spring 2008: T 1:30-2:30 PM, W 2:00-3:00 PM
Phone:512-475-7204
levack@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1970, Yale University

Research interests:
He is currently studying witchcraft prosecutions in early modern Scotland and demonic possession in Reformation Europe.

Courses taught:
Early modern Britain, the history of witchcraft and the history of political thought.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Europe: Early Modern, Europe: Modern

Thematic Field(s): Intellectual History, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Religion and Culture

Recent Publications:
Professor Levack is the author of The Civil Lawyers in England 1603-1641: A Political Study (1973), The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1987, 3rd ed. 2006), and The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union 1603-1707 (1987). He has edited The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004) and co-edited The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604 (1985). He is the co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) and The West: Encounters and Transformations (2004).