I've been on this forum for a good few years now, but the only posts I've made have said little more than "Good TL, old chap!" or "subscribed". I suspect this makes me technically a noob, and thus obliged to provide the obligatory Tiresome Noob Thread at some point. So here it is. I don't claim to be an expert in any of this, but I suppose if that were necessary then hardly anyone would post at all.
It's a big, unwieldy question, perhaps, but it hasn't come up before- what if Clovis had never converted to Catholicism? Perhaps he never met Clothilde, or one or the other of them carked it through a surfeit of lampreys or something. Without the Kingdom of the Franks, Western Europe starts to look a bit Arian and the Pope starts to be a bit isolated. What would the consequences of this be? Would we get an Arian West with no central authority, and perhaps a more eastward-looking Papacy?