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

  1. Hugh
  2. 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. 
  3. Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 83.
  4. Jane G. White, The Key to The Name of the Rose (1999), p. 66.

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