As the title says. I'm doing research into Rome, and can see evidently that Rome saw them as savages, courageous, but without the valor to achieve much. I can't find much on whether their conversion changed this view. Sources would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
A view was unable to occur. Here are a list of problems:
Germanic tribes near bordering the Roman Empire were converting to Arian Christianity. A Christianity where they believed Jesus, the son of God, was also a servant of God. They believed in a heirachy not the trinity. So the early German Christians that bordered the empire were probably were viewed as heretics.
The Roman Empire collapsed (completely) at 476 AD, long before the majority of Germans accepted Christianity.
Rome viewed Germanic people similarly as how they viewed Gauls. Barbaric people that need to be civilized by force. However, the dense forests of Germany spared the Germanic people from Roman conquest.
If you consider the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, as the Roman Empire, then they would have survived to see the Christianization of the Germanic tribes.
Hope this helps.