What Are the Franks?

The carolingian attempts to recreate something of rome's grandeur from the ashes a couple centuries later. The franks are one of many tribes who move into the the territory suc ruled by the western roman empire. They became, for a time, under charlemagne and his descendants, the the pre eminent force in western europe. And they're connected to these people that it's funny, because the terminology will kill you when you start using terms like franks to talk about a tribe the the romans or dovl.