Was the Holy Roman Empire simply a case of Stockholm syndrome?

>>2016505
>Germans conquer Romans

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>>2016505
Uhm, stockholm syndrome works the other way around.
The Romans would have started thinking they were Germans.

That's not what happened, and that's also not what Stockholm syndrome is.

>>2016505
Your arguments for a Stockholm-syndrome are not correct, but for the sake of argument I would actually argue, that it is kinda like a Stockholm-Syndrom.
This would stem from the believe, that the Roman empire would be the last empire before the apocalypse comes. Therefore people were trying as much as they could to keep that empire alive, thus >Holy Roman empire.
And in the end, they identified as the heirs of the Roman empire.
So, to have it in a simplified manner
>Romes annihilation threatens the world
>Oh holy fuck no!
>Start to identify with Rome
>Start to want to be like Rome
So, in a very simplistic sense, you could call it a Stockholm-Syndrome, but not really.

>>2016840
So its reverse stockholm syndrome?

Any other civilizations that did this?

Maybe how Turkics adopted islam and persian influence

>>2016505
If you want to be emperor you have to be the Roman emperor since (exept alfons vii) there were only Roman emperors till the 19th century

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How do you go from this...

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...to this?

>>2018435
Why ones danemark the baltic sea Slavs in Mecklenburg and pomerania

>>2018435
>>2018438
HRE was never as cohesive as other nations, if you could even call it a nation
the 30 years' war made it a lot worse, and the Keiser lost authority

>>2018361
Classic Rome with Greece? They even plagiarized their religion.