title: The Image of the Roman Empire in the Works of Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff
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metadata.value: Makhlaiuk, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:24:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:24:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Makhlaiuk A. V. The Image of the Roman Empire in the Works of Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 207–227.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.114
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36497
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the features of the image of the Roman Empire created by the outstanding
  historian M. I. Rostovtzeff, primarily in his “Social and Economic History of the Roman
  Empire”. This image is contradictory and ambiguous. It involves a lot of genuine innovative
  ideas, bright colours, but there are also a number of obvious exaggerations and aberrations, a
  certain “contemporization” of economic and social realities. Paradoxically, Rostovtzeff ’s Roman
  Empire turns out to be an empire without imperialism. Its very “empireness”, i. e., specific
  ties between the center and provincial and “barbaric” periphery; the organization of space;
  the modes of relations between the “imperial nation” and the subordinate peoples; the unity
  of diversity as well as geographical (geopolitical) and economic determination of Roman
  imperial expansion, remains outside the historian’s scope. At the same time, Rostovtzeff perspicaciously
  grasps the deep drama of Roman history, irreducible either to the tyranny and
  extravagance of individual rulers or to the merciless struggle of social classes. A significant
  role in creating such a comprehensive image of the Roman Empire was ensured not only by
  Rostovtzeff ’s political preferences and life experience, but also by his personality and style
  of scholarship. This gives the “Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire” a special
  dimension, making it not only a fact of historiography per se but the substantial evidence of
  the indissoluble relationship between the personality of the historian, his ideas and the time
  in which he happened to live and work.
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metadata.value: The research is supported by the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation (project No. 20-18-00374
  “The Imperial Mediterranean: Models, Discourses, and Practices of Imperialism from Antiquity to the Early
  Modern Age”).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mikhail I. Rostovtzeff
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Rome
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modern historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Image of the Roman Empire in the Works of Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff
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metadata.value: Article
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