Violet Moller

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Violet Moller


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Dr. Violet Moller is a freelance historian and author whose work focuses on the history of ideas and how knowledge has been transmitted through the centuries. She also hosts the history podcast Travels Through Time.

Moller started her career as a journalist, covering theatre, art, books, going out, music and culture in general. Her work has appeared in The Face, Arena, The Scotsman, Metro Scotland, and The List. She then worked as an editor and translator in Denmark. Her fist book, The Curious World of Dickens, was published in 2012. Her most recent book, The Map of Knowledge, was published in 2019 and received the RSL Jerwood Prize for Nonfiction.

Moller received her MA in classics and medieval history and her PhD in intellectual history f
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The Map of Knowledge: How C...

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Oxford in Quotations

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“Bagdad, en el corazón mismo del islam, es la ciudad del bienestar; en ella residen los talentos de los que hablan los hombres, junto con la elegancia y la cortesía. Sus aires son suaves y sus ciencias, sutiles. En ella puede encontrarse lo mejor de todo y todo lo que es hermoso.”
Violet Moller, La ruta del conocimiento

“En la introducción a su traducción del Fedón de Platón, Enrico Aristipo afirma que Guillermo fue un rey sin par, «cuya corte es una escuela, cuyo séquito es un gimnasio, cuyas palabras son declaraciones filosóficas, cuyas preguntas no se pueden responder, cuyas soluciones no dan lugar a discusión y cuyos estudios no dejan nada sin abordar».”
Violet Moller, La ruta del conocimiento

“Este periodo de preeminencia acabó de forma repentina en el 712, cuando los árabes invadieron la península desde el sur y establecieron su capital en Córdoba. Toledo, a la que llamaron Tulaytulah, permaneció varios siglos bajo el poder de los musulmanes, gobernada por familias locales con diversos grados de autonomía respecto a los omeyas.”
Violet Moller, La ruta del conocimiento

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