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SUMMARY:Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought - Edward Cavanagh\, 
 University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:This article contemplates the origins of one of the most curio
 us expressions used to explain royal power in English jurisprudence: namel
 y\, to speak of the crown’s flowers. After the Angevin kings showed so m
 uch preference for floriated crown designs\, a number of poets\, clerics\,
  and common lawyers worked the image into their appraisals of the monarchy
  generally. Up to the Stuart period\, it will be argued here that the idea
  enjoyed special purchase in the common law for suggesting that prerogativ
 e donations and delegations\, like flowers\, eventually die once plucked f
 rom their source. This is a finding that encourages\, in conclusion\, some
  reflection upon the circumstances which compel jurists\, past and present
 \, to invoke metaphors in their assessments of royal power in dicta. The p
 oint of this exercise is twofold: to search for new and unconventional con
 nections between medieval and modern English legal thought\, and to reveal
 \, in the process\, what kind of profit the history of ideas might derive 
 from law and jurisprudence.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Trinity College
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