Questioning of the elite dominance theory

[X99Lynx at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/15/2000 5:42:33 PM, dlwhite at texas.net writes:

<< I don't know who said this, but the Frankish half, though of perhaps
minor importance, is wrong:  the Franks were critically (to their success in
forging alliances with the Church) not Arians. >>

Actually it may not be of minor importance.  Arianism was a fundamentally
Greek form of Christianity and as such was the source of the first strong
foreign influx of Christian meaning and terminology into a Germanic language.

S. Long