Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd' has mentioned 'Historian' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| [48] By 1415 the uprising had been completely crushed, but the performance of the great castles and town walls is assessed by historian Michael Prestwich to have been "no more than partially successful". | WIKI |
| [36] The fortifications were in some regards simply too big, and as historian Michael Prestwich notes, smaller projects might actually have been more effective. | WIKI |
| [36] Rather than the sites being scientifically designed, historian Richard Morris suggested that "the impression is firmly given of an elite group of men-of-war, long-standing comrades in arms of the king, indulging in an orgy of military architectural expression on an almost unlimited budget". | WIKI |
| [97] Some of these survive largely intact; Conwy, for example, has what historian Jeremy Ashbee considers to be the "best preserved suite of medieval private royal chambers in England and Wales", including a private garden for the use of the queen. | WIKI |
| [103] Historian Arnold Taylor argued that the design of the castle was a representation of the Walls of Constantinople. | WIKI |
| Recent work by historian Abigail Wheatley suggests that the design of Caernarfon was indeed an assertion of Edward's authority, but that it drew on imagery from Roman sites in Britain with the intent of creating an allusion of Arthurian legitimacy for the king. | WIKI |
| [106] The resemblance between the two sets of buildings was first noted by historian Arnold Taylor in the 1950s. | WIKI |
| Historian Arnold Taylor described Beaumaris as Britain's "most perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning", and for many years the castle was regarded as the pinnacle of military engineering during Edward I's reign. | WIKI |
| [134] In the opinion of military historian Allen Brown, Caernarfon was "one of the most formidable concentrations of fire-power to be found in the Middle Ages". | WIKI |