Biography:Hugh of Newcastle
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Hugh of Newcastle (died 1322, buried in Paris) was a Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus. His origin in Newcastle-upon-Tyne[1] is questioned; he may have been from another place called Neufchâtel.[2]
Works
He wrote a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He was also author of a prophetic work De Victoria Christi contra Antichristum, from 1319,[3] encyclopedic on the Apocalypse and its signs, printed in 1471.
In literature
Hugh is a character in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.[4]
References
- Charles Victor Langlois (1925) Hugo de Novocastro or de Castronovo, Frater Minor; also printed in pp. 269–276, Andrew G. Little, Frederick M. Powicke (editors), Essays in Medieval History Presented to Thomas Frederick Tout (1977)
Notes
- ↑ Hugh
- ↑ Lerner, Robert E. (2009). The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment. ISBN 978-0801475375. https://books.google.com/books?id=a-5Q0qPWpT4C&dq=neufchatel&pg=PA56.
- ↑ Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 83.
- ↑ Jane G. White, The Key to The Name of the Rose (1999), p. 66.
External links
- Franaut page
- Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm, ed (1990). "Hugo de Novocastro" (in de). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 2. Hamm: Bautz. col. 1144. ISBN 3-88309-032-8. http://www.bbkl.de/h/hugo_d_no.shtml.
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