did the neighbouring people really care about them larping as the roman empires?
>>16537079Realistically even as a Byzaboo I have to ackwnoledge that the HRE and Eastern Roman Empire were equally legitimate in the eyes of the states around them
>>16537079No, because they were not "LARPing as Romans", they accepted the transfer of Roman Imperial power from that last living institution of Rome. They never call themselves Roman, just a new power who conquered the former Roman Terrority.They might as well have called themselves "the Holy European Empire", but Roman Empire was a more understandable contemporary concept to designate most of Western and Southern Europe.
>>16537101cope. the roman legacy was so powerful that calling themselves heirs of rome immediatly granted them legitimacy, because it implied they had they were excellent statesmen, generals and builders and most of all had the support of the church.
>>16537119>because it implied they had they were excellent statesmen, generals and builders and most of all had the support of the church.Rome never had any of those besides the last one for almost its entire Imperial era
>>16537119>cope. the roman legacy was so powerful that calling themselves heirs of rome immediatly granted them legitimacy, because it implied they had they were excellent statesmen, generals and builders and most of all had the support of the church.Yes, that is the exact point I made? An additional point is that it granted a legal claim to the ERE territories, in fact Charlemagne thought that by assuming the Imperial title granted by the Pontiff would automatically make the ERE provinces his vassals. In terms of late Roman Empire institutions he wasn't wrong to assume that from a legal perspective either.That being said they didn't start wearing laurel wreaths and moving into Roman palaces, they went back to Aachen almost immediately to live in German palaces, and never LARPed as Romans. This is a fantasy started by gaming addicts who love to argue over pointless shit. The vassals of the Kingdom of Germany was always far more important to them as that's where the money and development was (as well as Lotharingia and West Francia).
>>16537079except the eastern roman empire was literally the successor of the roman empire...
