Questioning of the elite dominance theory

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/15/00 3:42:33 PM Mountain Standard Time,
dlwhite at texas.net writes:

<< the Franks were critically (to their success in forging alliances with the
Church) not Arians. >>

-- correct. They were, in fact, still pagan at the time they set up shop in
Gaul.  When they converted, it was to Catholicism.

The Goths and Vandals, of course, were Arian 'heretics'.  That's why we have
the Gothic bible, a priceless source of information on East Germanic.