Talk:Romano-Germanic

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I think this would be better.

• Romano-Germanic culture of ancient Germanic peoples subject to the Roman Empire, or the Culture of the Holy Roman Empire.

--Sir Kindle 01:19, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I think identifying the culture of the Holy Roman Empire as "Romano-Germanic" is debatable at best. It suggests that Germanic/German culture was essentially unchanged between the 1st and 11th centuries, to say nothing of the eight centuries that followed until the H.R.E. was dissolved in 1806. That would be a serious error. -- Rob C (Alarob) 02:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

When it comes to the subject you have to ask yourself these questions.

• Do you think the HRE had Roman roots, or was a real continuation of the Western Roman Empire?

• Do you think modern day Germany has Roman roots?

• And what changed the Germanic peoples from the 1st-11th centuries. As far as migration, marraige, trade. In western europe at that time there were only so many cultures you could be influenced by, Roman, Celtic, Germanic, with Basque also, but Roman was the dominant culture, and effected most of the others.

also most the Germans came from Gotland area in Scandinavia, and even though there were diffrent names and small tribal diffrences, they were pretty much all cousins.

And I also believe Romano-Germanic cannot mean just modern day Germany or the HRE. It also applies to the Ostrogoths in Italy who were Romanized, the Visigoths in Spain who are famous for there "Romanazation", and the Franks in France. --Sir Kindle 03:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Correction: It doesn't matter what I think about any of those questions. Nor does it matter what you think. The standard is verifiability, not truth, and Wikipedia is not a forum for debate. Anything we write about Romano-German culture must be consistent with current scholarly opinion -- even if that opinion happens not to be correct. This article is not the leading edge of research, but only a reflection of it. -- Rob C (Alarob) 03:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)