In re the matter of demons and fairies: one point of reference might be
the last few pages of the last chapter of Part IV of Hobbes's LEVIATHAN,
"Of the Kingdom of Darkness," which compares the papacy to the kingdom of
fairies. Also the whole of Isabel Rathborne's much-neglected if
admittedly weird THE MEANING OF SPENSER'S FAIRYLAND.
Ken Gross
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