The meeting between roman culture and german world: a neverending process

The name 'Europe' in the ancient world is a concept to tell a mere geographical entity and not a political one.
The news of the modern history is the entry on the scene of this political entity which is named Europe... which already, back in the early Middle Age, was a political-cultural entity with the Carolingian Renaissance.
...But still today we all know that this geo-political entity is not amalgamated yet.


In the Middle Age, when it starts to grow, it is a mix of different ethnicities, cultures and traditions; it has been the birthplace of deep contacts and collisions between the german and the roman worlds, which gave birth to a 'tertium' that is the Medieval Europe: it succeded in mixing a so distant cultural traditions, condense them in a synthesis. Acculturation dynamics process, privileged laboratory to understand this cultures fusion, which manifestated right in the heart of this european entity during the early Middle Age( we will still find collisions in the late Middle Age, even if Europe was then an entity already well stabilized ).


All the political and military power was then held by Germans but the roman world remained a highly cultured structure, even if it didn't detain more the political control. It has been a metamorphosis for the entire roman society, especially under the economical profile, as the Romans started sophisticated economical policies before Germans uprised.
Certainly it has been a true transformation, as an entire world had been rewritten!