How can the Carolingian Empire latinize all of its territories?

How can the empire become more latin and be able to claim the title of Roman Empire? What would the right POD and policies that will lead to it?
 
How can the empire become more latin and be able to claim the title of Roman Empire? What would the right POD and policies that will lead to it?
They couldn't because the Western Empire had been gone for over 300 years at that point. Roman institutions were non-existent and old Roman infrastructure after centuries of neglect and disrepair broke down or were unusable. This made centralization and effective administration very difficult. Event the Eastern Roman Empire was not immune to this. Constantinople while the largest city among its contemporaries experience a steep decline. Many harbors shut down because of a lack of trade and many buildings such as the baths were mostly shut down or defunct. The state had become deeply impoverished in a generation and was reeling from defeat. Fortunately they were able to recover and adapt. In the west this didn't happen as old trade networks and Roman institutions broke down. Europe was in a dark age from the 7th and 8th centuries. Where the East mad a recovery in the 8th and 9th while the West jump started development in the mid 11th century after the Crusades where it began to eclipse the East after 1204. It didn't help that for the Carolingians, Germanic inheritance law guaranteed civil war and infighting. So many of the achievements of figures like Charlemagne were undone or rendered ineffective because of the civil war destabilizing everything. The Church was one of the few institutions with any capital or power left. They co-opted the Roman diocese system of provincial administration to bring some stability and political unity to Western Europe. Maybe Charlemagne could somehow try to end the feudal system or at least created a stronger crown where his designated heir as co king. Essentially the Realm would be under a king of kings with the Royal domains being larger and wealthier with it being able to muster a larger amount of troops. If Charlemagne can somehow achieve this then there would be enough stability for some sort of economic and cultural renewal in this Carolingian empire. Maybe the languages can be a Latin and Latinized German in the northern fringe parts of the empire.
 
How can the empire become more latin and be able to claim the title of Roman Empire? What would the right POD and policies that will lead to it?

Depends on what you mean by "more Latin".

More use of Latin as a viable language? That was OTL, as a lingua franca.

More widespread use of the traditional German pronunciation, or modernized version thereof or using an Old High German or Middle High German-based pronunciation of Latin? It'll sound a bit weird, but could potentially work. Though even then, what you'd get would not be German as we'd know it (that would be more later on IOTL, as 'Standard' German as such did not exist at that point in time) but more taking the local dialect for Aachen and using that for the Latin pronunciation.

Anything else beyond that? Others have already mentioned additional aspects better than what I would and all I'd say is that one would be playing with fire on that scale.
 
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