Anyone who still believes the Normans were a civilising influence has been reading the wrong histories.

Or believes civilisation lies in exploiting indigenous populations, destroying vernacular religious and scientific literature, reducing free women to chattels, basing life on perpetual warfare, and fearing the locals so much that they have to live behind fortress walls and impose draconian punishments on non-involved civilians if any of the colonial invaders are harmed. As the Normans did.