Summary Of The History Channel Documentary Barbarians: The Franks
The Franks
The History Channel documentary Barbarians-The Franks is about a group of loosely related Germanic ‘barbarian’ tribes that from the third to eighth centuries CE would occupy, and eventually conquer and settle most of the Western Roman province of Gaul which would later come to be known as France, or “Frankland”. The Franks are portrayed in this documentary as a ‘plague’ to Rome, but one group the Salians to the north of the Rhine River, were actually quite assimilated to Roman Culture and even aided as a buffer between Rome and other invading Barbarians. The Franks were first recognized as an “auxiliary” people by the Romans during the reign of Merovech whom is best remembered for being the first leader of the Salian Franks and
The History Channel documentary Barbarians-The Franks is about a group of loosely related Germanic ‘barbarian’ tribes that from the third to eighth centuries CE would occupy, and eventually conquer and settle most of the Western Roman province of Gaul which would later come to be known as France, or “Frankland”. The Franks are portrayed in this documentary as a ‘plague’ to Rome, but one group the Salians to the north of the Rhine River, were actually quite assimilated to Roman Culture and even aided as a buffer between Rome and other invading Barbarians. The Franks were first recognized as an “auxiliary” people by the Romans during the reign of Merovech whom is best remembered for being the first leader of the Salian Franks and