How useful is source C to a historian studying the success of law enforcement in the Norman period?
Use source C and your own knowledge to explain your answer. (8marks)
Source C:
Written shortly after William I’s
death in a book called The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
“He
made the country safe. Any person could
travel through his kingdom without injury, with his purse full of gold. No one dared to strike another, no matter how
much he was wronged… William was very tough and violent so that no one dared to
disobey him.”