Chapter 7 1. How was Charlemagne able to maintain such a vast empire? Charlemagne was able to maintain such a vast empire because from the day he was crowned he had goals to revive and restore the Roman Empire, which he had felt had definitely fallen and needed to be renewed. He reformed cultural, religious, and political life in the empire in order to make the revival a success and to maintain the empire. Reform in all …showed first 75 words of 1191 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1191 total…was another reformer of the time. He traveled with his entourage trying to right the wrongs of the church. He disciplined and disposed of clerics that had purchased their positions, or refused to give up their wives after he made decrees against simony, clerical marriage, and immorality. Seeing the church being reformed and the sins of the past being corrected and fixed so that they would not continue, helped to improve the churches image again.