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@augustus i dunno. that might be a presentist way of looking at things. i think for most people of that era they just saw "rome" as synonymous with the big kingdom thats been around since the dawn of time and will continue to exist forever. it's like how mongols who havent even occupied the chinese heartland still went ahead and declared themselves chinese successors because to them, the chinese emperor was de-facto king of the center of earth. same reason why franks called themselves the HRE. it's all they knew.
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@augustus worth noting that even the turks positioned themselves as a continuation of rome rather than some islamic empire. mehmed II was basically a byzaboo and kept most of the aristocracy and orthodox clergy around unchanged, even the remnants of the palaiologos dynasty.
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@augustus nobody saw it as actually aspiring to be ancient rome because ancient rome was as distant to them as david's israel. if you read rome as just "king of the world" it makes more sense.
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