A. V. Makhlayuk The Image the Roman Empire in the Works of Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzev
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.114Abstract
The article examines the features of the image of the Roman Empire, that was 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 contains 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, remains outside the historian’s special examination, as well as the geographical (geopolitical) and economic determination of Roman imperial expansion. 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 played not only by Rostovtzeff’s political preferences and life experience, but also by his personality and style of scholarship. But this fact gives the “Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire” a special dimension, making it not only a fact of historiography, but the substantial evidence of the indissoluble and irremovable relationship between the personality of the historian, his ideas and the time in which he happened to live and work.
Keywords:
Mikhail I. Rostovtzeff, Roman Empire, image, “Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire”, history of Rome, modern historiography
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Makhlaiuk, A. V. . (2023). A. V. Makhlayuk The Image the Roman Empire in the Works of Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzev. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 67(1), 207–227. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.114
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